different between legal vs escheat

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin l?g?lis (“legal”), from l?x (“law”). Doublet of loyal and leal.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?li?.??l/
• Rhymes: -i???l
• (US) IPA^(key): /?li??l/

Adjective

legal (comparative more legal, superlative most legal)

1. Relating to the law or to lawyers.

2. Having its basis in the law.

3. Being allowed or prescribed by law.

4. (informal) Above the age of consent or the legal drinking age.
5. (US, Canada) (of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 14 in (215.9 mm × 355.6 mm) (also legal-size).

Antonyms

• (allowed): banned, contraband, disallowed, forbidden, illegal, outlawed, unlawful
• (concerning law): black-market, back-alley
• (over age of consent): underage

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

legal (countable and uncountable, plural legals)

1. (uncountable, informal) The legal department of a company.

   Legal wants this in writing.

2. (uncountable, US, Canada) Paper in sheets 8½ in × 14 in (215.9 mm × 355.6 mm).
3. (countable) A spy who is attached to, and ostensibly employed by, an embassy, military outpost, etc.
4. (countable, informal, US) Somebody who immigrated lawfully.

   Antonyms: illegal, undocumented

Derived terms

• legal-size

Anagrams

• Galle, egall

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin l?g?lis. Compare the inherited doublet lleial.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /l???al/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /le??al/

Adjective

legal (masculine and feminine plural legals)

1. legal

   Antonym: il·legal

Derived terms

• legalitzar
• legalment

Related terms

• legalitat
• llei
• lleial

Further reading

• “legal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “legal” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “legal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “legal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin l?g?lis (“legal”), from l?x (“law”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le?a?l/, [le???æ??l]

Adjective

legal

1. legal (something that conforms to or is according to law)
2. legitimate (conforming to accepted rules)

Inflection

Synonyms

• (legal): lovlig
• (legitimate): legitim

Antonyms

• (legal): illegal

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin l?g?lis. Compare leal.

Adjective

legal m or f (plural legais)

1. legal (having its basis in the law)

Antonyms

• ilegal

Derived terms

• legalmente

See also

• lícito

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin l?g?lis (“legal”), from l?x (“law”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [le???a?l]
• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

legal (not comparable)

1. legal

Declension

Antonyms

• illegal

Further reading

• “legal” in Duden online

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch legaal (“legal”), from French légal, from Latin l?g?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l??al]
• Hyphenation: lè?gal

Adjective

legal

1. legal, allowed or prescribed by law.

Derived terms

Further reading

• “legal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin l?g?lis (“legal”), from l?x (“law”). Compare leal, an inherited doublet.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /l?.??a?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /le.??aw/

Adjective

legal m or f (plural legais, comparable)

1. legal
2. (Brazil, familiar) cool, nice, good

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:legal.

Synonyms

• (legal): lícito
• (Portugal, cool): fixe

Antonyms

• (legal): ilegal
• (cool): chato

Derived terms

• legalmente

Related terms

• ilegal
• legalidade

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French légal, Latin legalis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le??al/

Adjective

legal m or n (feminine singular legal?, masculine plural legali, feminine and neuter plural legale)

1. legal, lawful

Declension

Synonyms

• licit

Antonyms

• ilegal
• ilicit

Related terms

• legalitate
• lege
• legitim

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin l?g?lis, from l?x (“law”). Compare leal, an inherited doublet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le??al/, [le???al]

Adjective

legal (plural legales)

1. legal, statutory

   Antonym: ilegal

2. lawful
3. (colloquial) legit

Derived terms

• alegal
• legalmente

Related terms

• ilegal
• legalidad
• ley

Further reading

• “legal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin legalis.

Adjective

legal (not comparable)

1. legal

Declension

Related terms

• illegal
• legalitet
• legitim

English

Etymology

From Middle English eschete, from Anglo-Norman escheat, Old French eschet, escheit, escheoit (“that which falls to one”), from the past participle of escheoir (“to fall”), from Vulgar Latin *excad?, from Latin ex + cad? (“I fall”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?t??i?t/

Noun

escheat (countable and uncountable, plural escheats)

1. (law) The return of property of a deceased person to the state (originally to a feudal lord) where there are no legal heirs or claimants.
2. (law) The property so reverted.
3. (obsolete) Plunder, booty.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.viii:

     Approching, with bold words and bitter threat, / Bad that same boaster, as he mote, on high / To leaue to him that Lady for excheat, / Or bide him battell without further treat.

4. That which falls to one; a reversion or return.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:escheat.

Translations

Verb

escheat (third-person singular simple present escheats, present participle escheating, simple past and past participle escheated)

1. (transitive) To put (land, property) in escheat; to confiscate.
   • 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin 2017, p. 329:

     Failure to perform duties opened the culprit to charges of ‘felony’ (felonia), providing grounds for the king to escheat the fief.

2. (intransitive) To revert to a state or lord because its previous owner died without an heir.

Derived terms

• escheator
• escheatment

Anagrams

• ceaseth, cheetas, teaches

Translations