legal cap

American  

noun

1. ruled writing paper in tablet form, measuring approximately 8½ × 13 to 14 inches (22 × 33 to 36 centimeters).

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legal cap British  

noun

1. ruled writing paper, about 8 by 13 1/ 2 inches with the fold at the top, for use by lawyers

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Etymology

Origin of legal cap

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75

Example Sentences

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legal cap

For teaching summer courses that generally ran for up to two weeks, Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh each made salaries that approached the legal cap on certain outside income, roughly $30,000 in recent years.

From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2023

The deal reached after several weeks of intense negotiations between attorneys and doctors groups would raise the legal cap on pain and suffering awards to $350,000 beginning Jan. 1.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2022

The debt ceiling is a legal cap on how much money the federal government can borrow to fund its budget deficits and meet debt obligations.

From Reuters ● Aug. 25, 2017

The judgment included $1.5 million in compensatory damages and $7.5 million in punitive damages — an award so large it exceeded the state’s legal cap and was reduced by a judge.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 5, 2016

That the said last will and testament is written consecutively upon two sheets of legal cap paper.

From Forty Centuries of Ink or, a chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds, introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels of time and color phenomena, bibliography, chemistry, poetical effusions, citations, anecdotes and curiosa together with some evidence respecting the evanescent character of most inks of to-day and an epitome of chemico-legal ink. by Carvalho, David Nunes