legal memory
noun Law.
a period of time, now usually established by statute, during which custom, conduct, or a state of affairs must have existed or continued in order for it to have taken on the force of law or to establish a legal right or title not otherwise provable.
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Origin of legal memory
First recorded in 1760–70
Words nearby legal memory
legality, legalize, Le Gallienne, legal list, legal medicine, legal memory, legal pad, legal positivism, legal reserve, legal separation, legal-size
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