In general, ESG stands for Environment-Social-Governance and encompasses a set of principles that touch on issues ranging from diversity and board structures to labour relations, supply chain, data ethics, environmental impact and regulatory requirements. Legal, legal, legitimate, legal means complying with the law. Licite may apply to conformity with laws of any kind (e.g., natural, divine, general, or canonical). The legal sovereign right applies to what is sanctioned by law or in accordance with the law, especially if it is written or administered by the courts. Legal residents of the state may legitimately refer to a legal right or status, but also, in the case of extensive use, to a right or status supported by tradition, custom or accepted norms. A perfectly legitimate question about tax legality concerns strict compliance with legal provisions and applies in particular to what is regulated by law. The Legal Use of Drugs by Physicians The Supreme Court finally intervened and ended legal segregation in the landmark 1954 decision, Brown v. School Board. legal m or n (feminine singular legală, masculine plural legali, feminine and neuter plural legale) When you act legally, you obey the law. If you`re driving a car, legally turning right at a red light usually means using your turn signal and stopping to make sure the road is clear.

When an American woman reaches the age of twenty-one, she is legally considered an adult – in other words, the law says it is the age of adulthood. The Latin root of legal is legalis, “belonging to the law”, lex or “law”. Companies are not sharing this information, in part because of concerns about the legal consequences Trek now faces. legal (relatively legal, most juridical superlative) Borrowed from the Latin lēgālis (“legal”), from lēx (“law”). Duplicate of loyal and leal. She writes with the ease of a novelist rather than the precision characteristic of a lawyer. This is reconstructed from the Proto-Germanic *lagam “to lay eggs, to lay eggs” (from the root PIE *legh- “to lie down, to lie down”). The modern word is therefore a twin of the laity (No. 2) as “that which is fixed or fixed”. The Indo-European words for “a law” most often come from verbs for “fix, place, fix, pose”, such as Greek thesmos (from tithemi “to fix, to place”), Old English dom (from PIE *dhe- “to fix, place, fix”), Lithuanian įstatyme (from statyti “to stand, erect, erect”), Polish ustawa (from stać “to stand”). Compare also the Old English gesetnes (above), statute, from the Latin statuere; The German law “one law, one statute”, from the Old High German gisatzida “one determination, one determination, one evaluation”, with sezzen (new German ensemble) “sitting, together, together”.

Mid-15th century “belonging to or belonging to the law”, from the Old French legal “legal” (14c.) or directly from the Latin legalis “belonging to the law”, from lex (genitive legis) “a decree; a command, a regulation, a principle, a rule; formal proposal of law, motion, bill; a contract, an agreement, an invention. This is probably related to the casual “collect”, from the root PIE *leg- (1) “collect, collect”, where the derivatives mean “to speak (“select words”)”. Perhaps the name comes from the verb for “a set of rules,” but de Vaan seems to imply that development is reversed: the meaning of “legally permitted” dates back to the 1640s. Related: Legal. Not etymologically related to the law (n.), s. v. The usual form of Old French was leial, loial (see leal, loyal). Legal tender “which the creditor is legally obliged to accept” dates back to 1740 (see invitation to tender (No. 2)). A statutory holiday (1867) is a statutory or proclamation holiday during which government business is generally suspended. This little book contains many of the most commonly used legal principles, as readers who read it carefully will learn. The most notorious states are Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, where death is an acceptable remedy. A lawyer is someone who studies law.

A lawful search and seizure occurs when the police show up at your home with an arrest warrant. A legal apartment is an apartment that complies with building codes and is located in an appropriate zoned area. The opposite of legal is illegal, which means breaking the law. He is guilty of the weakness of taking refuge in what I believe to be called, in legal terms, a minor matter. Another proposal would ban cars from blocking the box at intersections, which is legal in some parts of the state. Jeff Kosseff, a former journalist turned lawyer and jurist, became one of the leading experts on the 1996 law and is the author of the aptly titled book “The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet.” When something is done legally, it follows the rules of law. If a couple has received a marriage certificate and a ceremony has been performed by a judge, they are legally married. Old English lagu (plural laga, combination of lah-) “regulation, rule prescribed by authority, regulation; district subject to the same laws; sometimes also “law, legal privilege”, from Old Norse *lagu “law”, collective plural of lag “layer, measure, blow”, literally “something fixed, what is fixed or fixed”. The law only gave you the right to sue him for pecuniary damages for legal damages.

Borrowed from Latin lēgālis. Compare legacy duplicates. n. legally created by man, as opposed to “natural law”, which is supposed to be based on generally accepted moral principles, “the law of God” and/or derived from nature and reason. The term “positive law” was first used by Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan (1651). Weeks retained an unprecedented legal team, which included bitter political rivals Hamilton and Burr. In physics, “a phrase expressing the regular order of things” from the 1660s. Law and order have been coupled since 1796. The establishment of the law (1752) is pleonastic (the “law” in the illustration is the biblical law established from the pulpit). Bad laws made it possible to support the poor at the expense of the state; State laws limited excesses in clothing, food, or luxury. It is more common for Indo-European languages to use different words for “a particular law” and for “law” in the general sense of “institution or body of law”, e.g. Latin lex “a law”, ius “a right”, especially “legal law, law”.

Anglo-French, from Latin legalis, from leg-, lex law Legal means to deal with the law or to follow the law. Lawyers work in the legal profession, but are not always lucky enough to find a legal parking space near their office. legal (nominative masculine very singular legal, not comparable) The seizure took place in legal form; The banker, who lost nothing, was obliged to comply. For citations using this term, see Citations:legal. The words for “law” in the general sense usually etymologically mean “what is right” and are often associated with adjectives for “right” (even often figurative uses of words for “right”, “right”, “true”, “appropriate” or “use, custom”). These are Greek nomos (as in numismatics); French straight, Spanish derecho, from Latin directus; Polish prawo, Russian pravo (from Old Ecclesiastical Slavic pravŭ “right”, in girl languages “right”); also Old Norse rettr, Old English riht, Dutch law, German law (see right (Adj.1)). From Dutch legaal (“legal”), from legal French, from Latin lēgālis. The legal framework of the state and the obedience to the law in which industrial society finds itself threaten to break.

However, legal issues are only one of the things that stand between a former prisoner and a job. What happens if there is a legal dispute between the foreign investor and his Egyptian partners or employees? Rare in Old English, it replaced the more common ae and gesetnes, which were also etymologically “somewhat placed or fixed”.