legality

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the state or quality of being permitted by or consistent with the law

   The court will decide the legality of the emergency order next week.

2. 2
   noun

   a legal requirement or procedural detail, usually used in the plural

   The contract's legality depended on several technical legalities that the lawyers had to resolve.

Borrowed from French légalité or formed from legal and -ity, ultimately from Latin legalis, 'relating to law.' It denotes conformity with law and, in the plural legalities, the rules or formal details that law requires.

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