9 sentences with “legally”

In ancient Greece, slave masters could legally kill, rape or mutilate slaves if they saw fit.

Women could not hold public office, nor could they legally own property or defend themselves independently in court.

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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

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.