Pertaining or relating to law; connected with the law: as, legal doctrines or studies; a legal document or controversy; legal arguments.According or conformable to law; permitted or warranted by the law or laws; lawful; not forbidden by law; having the force of law: as, the action is strictly legal; legal traffic or commerce.Pertaining to the provisions or administration of the law; determined by or in accordance with law; judicial: as, legal proceedings; a legal opinion or decision; a legal standard or test.Amenable to remedy or punishment by law as distinguished from equity: as, legal waste; legal irregularity.Created by law; recognized by law: as, legal incapacity; a legal infant; legal crimes.In theology, according to the Mosaic law or dispensation; according or pertaining to the doctrine of reliance on good works for salvation, as distinguished from that of free grace.Synonyms and Legitimate, etc. (see lawful); legalized, authorized, allowable, just, constitutional.n. In Scots law, same as legal reversion (which see, under I.).