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  • 1legal injury — UK US noun [U] LAW ► physical damage to property or harm done to a person that happens as the direct result of someone breaking a law: »Our legal injury claim professionals work to accomplish injury compensation for your mental injury …

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  • 2legal injury — n. A harm caused by the infringement of a legal right. Webster s New World Law Dictionary. Susan Ellis Wild. 2000 …

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  • 3legal injury — An invasion of a legal right; a wrong from which the law imports damage. Allen v Stowell, 145 Cal 666, 79 P 371. An injury for the redress whereof an action will lie. The much argued and interesting case of Allen v Flood (1898) A. C. 1,… …

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  • 4legal injury — noun any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right • Syn: ↑wrong, ↑damage • Derivationally related forms: ↑wrong (for: ↑wrong) • Hypernyms: ↑injury …

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  • 5injury — in‧ju‧ry [ˈɪndʒəri] noun injuries PLURALFORM [countable, uncountable] 1. physical harm to a person, for example in an accident: • Mr. Lewis was awarded $75,000 as compensation for injuries suffered in the accident. • absence from work due to… …

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  • 6legal — 1. Conforming to the law; according to law; required or permitted by law; not forbidden or discountenanced by law; good and effectual in law; of or pertaining to the law; lawful. Freeman v. Fowler Packing Co., 135 Kan. 378, 11 P.2d 276, 277. See… …

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  • 7legal — 1. Conforming to the law; according to law; required or permitted by law; not forbidden or discountenanced by law; good and effectual in law; of or pertaining to the law; lawful. Freeman v. Fowler Packing Co., 135 Kan. 378, 11 P.2d 276, 277. See… …

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  • 8legal damages — Such losses or detriments as the law compensates in consequence of a wrong committed. 22 Am J2d Damg § 1. See legal injury …

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  • 9injury — in·ju·ry n pl ries [Latin injuria, from injurus injurious, from in not + jur jus right] 1: an act that wrongs or harms another; specif: a violation of a legally protected interest (as the physical or mental well being, property, reputation, or… …

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  • 10Legal death — is a legal pronouncement by a qualified person that further medical care is not appropriate and that a patient should be considered dead under the law. The specific criteria used to pronounce legal death are variable and often depend on certain… …

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