LEGAL RELATION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 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)

Credits