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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LEGAL'ITY, n.
1. Lawfulness; conformity to law.
2. In theology, a reliance on works for salvation.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: lawfulness by virtue of conformity to a legal statute [ant: illegality]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -ties) Date: 15th century 1. attachment to or observance of law 2. the quality or state of being legal ; lawfulness 3. plural obligations imposed by law

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 lawfulness. 2 legalism. 3 (in pl.) obligations imposed by law. Etymology: F légalité or med.L legalitas (as LEGAL)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Legality Le*gal"i*ty (l[-e]*g[a^]l"[i^]*t[y^]), n. [Cf. LL. legalitas, F. l['e]galit['e]. Cf. Loyalty.] 1. The state or quality of being legal; conformity to law. 2. (Theol.) A conformity to, and resting upon, the letter of the law.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you talk about the legality of an action or situation, you are talking about whether it is legal or not. The auditor has questioned the legality of the contracts. N-UNCOUNT: usu the N of n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Lawfulness, conformity to law.

Moby Thesaurus

admissibility, admissibleness, allowableness, defensibility, drumhead justice, dueness, equitableness, equity, evenhandedness, give-and-take, justice, justifiability, justifiableness, justification, justness, lawfulness, legitimacy, licitness, measure for measure, meetness, nemesis, permissibility, permissibleness, poetic justice, properness, propriety, retributive justice, right, rightfulness, rightness, rude justice, sanctionableness, scales of justice, summary justice, validity, warrantability, warrantableness, warrantedness, what is right