Who will bother about the antecedents of the mother, who has disappeared, whom she never knew, and who is legally dead to her?
He was about to adopt her legally as his daughter, when she died, leaving him inconsolable, save for the melancholy satisfaction of beatifying her memory with his pen, and of worshipping her in his heart.
Even to the present day, there are many who decidedly think him legally married to the daughter of Raja Subichar.
Manaswi swore by all holy things that he had been legally married to her, and that he was the father of her child that was about to be.
His own estate was tied up and legally settled on his wife, and he had been led by his fatal passion to take from the funds entrusted to him by his clients a sum which was already more than half their amount.
His appartement was made up of four rooms, without counting the precious anglaises on the floor above him of which he had the key; they belonged to him, he had made them, and he felt he was legally entitled to them.
Monsieur Birotteau might have others in partnership with him, and it is better to settle everything legally at once; then there can be no discussion.
Existing provisions of law not opposed to the present Constitution shall remain in force until legally abrogated.
The population is legally divided into Europeans and persons assimilated to them, and natives and persons assimilated to them.
In The Downfall Matilda Fitz Walter escapes from the persecution of King John by following her lover to Sherwood Forest, where they took the names of Robin Hood and Maid Marian, and lived apart until they could be legally united.
They are of all degrees of wealth and poverty, but are guarded legally from mesalliances with persons of ignoble origin or equivocal occupation.
As the Moslem peoples advance, their law can, thus, advance with them, and the grasp of the dead hand of the canon law be gradually and legally released.
On his refusing to do this, the poor slave may be legally and severely flogged by public officers.
That is to say, the father of the slave may be the President of the Republic; but if the mother should be a slave at the infant's birth, the poor child is ever legallydoomed to the same cruel fate.
But as the woman and her children are legally the property of the man, who stands in the anomalous relation to them of husband and father, as well as master, they are liable to be seized and sold for his debts, should he become involved.
Moreover, Norm was legally an adult and had a right to his privacy.
You have, as I believe you know, a small inheritance, which is yours legally under your grandfather's will.
Ernest had by this time been married some two months, for he had stuck to his original plan of marrying Ellen on the first day he could legally do so.
Here we have a foreign race introduced amongst us, which has been proscribed, legally as well as socially.
The difficulty with them is as great as it is with the people of England, who must, at a frightful expense, go to no less than the House of Lords to obtain an act to separate legally from their unfaithful partners.
One is liable for a debt when legally bound to pay it.
To make into a body in the legal sense, so that a number of individuals may transact business legally as one person.
He believed Newman to be legally and historically right.
In the opinion of Mr. Justice Stephen, which is worth rather more than hers, it was legally a gift, though there may have been in the circumstances a moral obligation.
This was fifteen years before Christianity was legally adopted in Iceland.
This was sixteen [S: fifteen] winters before Christianity was legallyadopted in Iceland.
The magistrate answered him on the same day through their secretary that they could not legally grant him a copy of the judgment against her, but would communicate the "necessary disclosures" to the tribunal.
He complied, and on the outside of this order is written: To-day appeared Ludwig van Beethoven as the legally appointed guardian of his nephew Carl and vowed with solemn handgrasp before the assembled council to perform his duties.
Should this be refused by the owners, this board would further recommend the enginemen, mechanics and cokemen who are yet employed to give in their notices and thuslegally terminate their agreement.
He thought the exclusion applied not merely to claims as of right, but to all protection from the Association, and they could not be deemed legally or properly objects of the benefits of the Association.
In consequence of these laws, people so nearly white as not to be distinguished from Europeans, may be, and have been, legally claimed as slaves.
But, from some motive or other, he afterward claimed Sally as his slave, on the ground that no slave could make any purchase on his own account, or possess any thing which did not legally belong to his master.
Certain tribes acknowledge the right of the women and children to share in the dead man's wealth, given that these are legally married wives, or the children of legally married wives; it is so in Cameroons, for example.
Such an order written on a sheet of note-paper with a lead-pencil might be in every way a legally good cheque.
The buyer should make sure that the road is in a busy community able to sustain it, that its franchise will protect it from dangerous competition, and that the securities have been legally issued.
A shareholder may retire absolutely by selling his stock and having it legally transferred.
The associations may now legally exercise those functions which are connected with the joint business of their members, and they may act as bureaus of information regarding the competitive traffic.
How can youlegally make it payable to your own order?
In several of the States a note is not legally due until three days, called DAYS OF GRACE, after the expiration of the time specified in the note.
Three years later, when a President-elect started to assume office before the legally appointed time, a force of American marines at the capital convinced him that such a procedure was undesirable.
Juarez now proclaimed himself acting President, as he was legally entitled to do, and set up his government at Vera Cruz while one "provisional president" followed another.
Legally the Indian under Spanish rule stood on a footing of equality with his white fellows, and many a gifted native came to be reckoned a force in the community, though his social position remained a subordinate one.
The bearing of a feigned name was legally a crime, but that was of no consequence in Egon's mind.
The value of his property islegally appraised, and my share will be only that which the law allows me.
So I was now legally in the right if I arrested every person on board that steam launch.
You are legally dead, and you have now a chance to begin life anew, an opportunity of which I hope you will take advantage.
Her evidence was, however, legally inadmissible, and our hopes rested on Anne Moody, who was immediately called in.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "legally" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
