Legally

Examples

• Royalty payments must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax returns. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• What more, Mr. Blake, either logically, or legally, can be said for yours? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But not legally;--I want her to be mine legally, said Miss Ophelia. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Moreover, either New York State or Virginia was historically and legally almost as much a sovereign state as New Zealand or Canada. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I have come legally to man's estate. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• We shan't be legally for a day or two. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• If I were but legally executor of Johnny's will! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The moment Adrian should be legally elected his deputy, he would escape to safety. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• At any rate, I should have waited to be informed against and fined, and given all the trouble in yielding that I legally could. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• You see, I brought my own property and servants into the connection, when I married St. Clare, and I am legally entitled to manage them my own way. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I urged upon him the necessity of its being dug up, and the paper being legally produced and established. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Of course, legally, we are putting ourselves hopelessly in the wrong; but I think that it is worth it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Yet it is hard, she sometimes thought, that this poor man cannot come to a house which he has legally hired, without raising all this speculation! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.

Edited by Alison