The parliament unquestionably possesses a legal authority to regulate the trade of Great-Britain, and all its colonies.
The legal authority of Great Britain may indeed lay hard restrictions upon us; but, like the spear of Telephus, it will cure as well as wound.
In short, the little community was turned into a scene of confusion, and every man acted as he thought proper, without any regard to legal authority, and in contempt of the governor and other officers of the proprietors.
These emigrants were not a people accustomed to rural labours and frugal simplicity, but many of them pampered citizens, whose wants luxury had increased, and rendered them impatient of fatigue and the restraints of legal authority.
Landgrave Colleton, mortified at the loss of power, and alarmed at the bold and seditious spirit of the people, was not a little perplexed what step to take in order to recal them to the obedience of legal authority.
But precedents of usurped power cannot establish a legal authority in defiance of the acknowledged law.
In certain cases, such as a tumultuous obstruction of legal authority, each might be said to possess an equal power; the sheriff being still undoubtedly competent to call out the posse comitatus in order to enforce obedience.
Their claim to a legal authority, and to the name of representatives of a people who rejected and abhorred them, was perfectly impudent.
It is quite another question whether the parliament were justified in their resistance to the king's legal authority.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "legal authority" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
