English > legal status: 1 sense > noun 1, state| Meaning | A status defined by law. |
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| Category | law, jurisprudence | The collection of rules imposed by authority |
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| Narrower | citizenship | The status of a citizen with rights and duties |
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| civil death | The legal status of a person who is alive but who has been deprived of the rights and privileges of a citizen or a member of society |
| marital status | The condition of being married or unmarried |
| minority, nonage | Any age prior to the legal age |
| villeinage, villainage | The legal status or condition of servitude of a villein or feudal serf |
| Broader | status, position | The relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society |
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| Spanish | condición jurídica, condición legal, estado legal, estatuto jurídico |
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| Catalan | condició legal, estat legal, estatut jurídic |
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