Usage of "legal instrument"

ruso

документ

portugués

documento legal

catalán

document legal

español

documento oficial

(Law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right.

documento oficial

Synonyms

Examples for "instrument"

They used the law as an instrument of change to better society. 
 The Irish Times 

For each instrument, a new set of questions needs to be asked. 
 Wired 

Unfortunately, neither instrument found any evidence of a planet-wide subsurface water system. 
 The Guardian 

That leaves interest rates as the main instrument for helping the economy. 
 Reuters 

Objectives: To develop a mechanical syringe procedure for identification of instrument problems. 
 Pubmed 

They are not a legal document inscribed on a paper, it said. 
 Reuters 

Possessing a legal document that acknowledges what actually went on might help. 
 The Guardian 

Fox and Greene are barristers with considerable experience in legal document review. 
 The Irish Times 

The following extract is from a legal document of the year 832. 
 Anglo-Saxon Literature 

Nathaniel Adams Sawyer sat in his library reading a ponderous legal document. 
 Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason Corner Folks 

During the dinner came an immense letter with a seal-anofficial document. 
 Great Violinists and Pianists 

And Johnny handed to Sir Raffle an official document of large dimensions. 
 The Last Chronicle of Barset 

This is no official document, but a most significant letter of instructions. 
 Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel 

Once she signed the official document, the wedding was legally valid. 
 The Bad Beginning 

The procession halted, while the older policeman gazed fascinated at the official document. 
 Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days 

The exact course of the battle at Chowmodo is not described in any authentic document. 
 China 

From this authentic document we take the following extract: 
 The Irish Race in the Past and the Present 

This valuable and authentic document the Minister sent by an extra courier to the Emperor, who showed it to his stepdaughter. 
 Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon 

I have seen the latter, which is kept in the Sinai convent at Cairo, but I do not believe it to be an authentic document. 
 Travels in Syria and the Holy Land 

This original agreement was brought to España with the other authentic documents. 
 The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 16 of 55 / 1609 / Exp... 

Usage of legal instrument in inglés

It can become a legal instrument by Topcliffe's act; and it would pass muster- 
 Come Rack! Come Rope! 

Underneath this fictitious legal instrument was discreetly appended: 
 The Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 2 

A ward is under age till the time specified in the legal instrument that appoints the guardian. 
 The Living Link: A Novel 

The legal instrument may exonerate Rose and others, but it does not serve to better clarify consent. 
 Ebony 

Sir, -The Constitution is the highest legal instrument in the land to which the law must defer. 
 The Irish Times 

Thus, the hope and optimism experienced by the ordinary man was formalised in the country's primary legal instrument. 
 The South African 

Maurice unhesitatingly expressed his willingness to comply with this request, and the legal instrument was drawn up without delay. 
 Fairy Fingers / A Novel 

He added that the new legal instrument would allow hundreds of thousands of people to "enforce their rights". 
 The Guardian 

Our view is that the strongest part of a legal instrument is what we each commit to in our countries. 
 Reuters 

Taken together as a package, the joint EU-UK legal instrument and the UK's unilateral declaration shift the legal position for the UK. 
 The Guardian 

The end of the interview was a visit to the public-house, and the transferring of another legal instrument from Algernon to Anthony. 
 Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith 

One would cover parties already under the Kyoto Protocol, while the other would be a legal instrument covering the remaining parties, Runge-Metzger said. 
 Reuters 

During the remaining years of the Roosevelt Administrations, this legal instrument was used with aggressive force for the purpose for which it was intended. 
 Theodore Roosevelt and His Times: A Chronicle of the Progressive... 

It is a declaratory model action, a new form of German legal instrument similar to US class actions or group litigation orders in the UK. 
 The Guardian 

The only state of things which can justify the guiding of a hand executing a legal instrument is the feebleness or illness of its owner. 
 Disputed Handwriting / An exhaustive, valuable, and comprehensiv... 

The stamps were upon blue paper, and were to be attached to every piece of paper or parchment, on which a legal instrument was written. 
 James Otis, the Pre-Revolutionist 