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LEGAL RELATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A professional relation that is regulated by law (as between a lawyer and a client)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("legal relation" is a kind of...):
professional relation (the relation that exists when one person requests and is granted professional help from a qualified source)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "legal relation"):
fiduciary relation (the legal relation that exists when one person justifiably places reliance on another whose aid or protection is sought in some matter)
