9 sentences with 'legally'
Example sentences and phrases with the word legally and other words derived from it.
• « The first notable confrontation took place on May 26, 1937, when the United Auto Workers sought - legally - to distribute leaflets at the Rouge River plant. »
• « A serf is a farmer who is legally bound to the land on which he works - they cannot leave the land to seek better work elsewhere, living in a state very close to slavery. »
• « Interestingly, unlike many other ancient societies, women in Egypt were almost legally equal to men. They had the legal right to own property, sue, and essentially exist as independent legal entities. »
• « Women could not hold public office, nor could they legally own property or defend themselves independently in court. »
• « Widows, who were common thanks to women's young age of marriage and the death of soldier husbands, were legally autonomous and continued to run households after the husband's death. »
• « Although most peasants never left the area where they were born, many migrated to the nearest towns and cities and tried to make a life there; serfs (unfree peasants) who came to a village and stayed a year and a day were even legally freed from having to return to the farm. »
• « All lands were legally the king's, and his nobles received their lands as "fiefs", essentially loans from the crown that had to be renewed by payments on the death of a landowner before they could be inherited. »
• « The 18th century was the heyday of so-called "polite society" among the nobility: a legally reinforced elite who believed themselves to be possessed of true "good taste". »