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legal cap

  1. ruled writing paper in tablet form, measuring approximately 8½ × 13 to 14 inches (22 × 33 to 36 centimeters).


legal cap

  1. ruled writing paper, about 8 by 13 1 2 inches with the fold at the top, for use by lawyers
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of legal cap1

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
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Example Sentences

The jury deliberated for two hours, then awarded Ganeshananda $105,541,440 for his pain and suffering, which the court was forced to reduce to the state’s legal cap of $815,000.

When commentators discovered this law during the 2011 and 2013 debt ceiling battles, they realized that this power could offer a way to sidestep the legal cap Congress places on the federal government’s borrowing.

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The legal cap is $9,000, and in a case like this, where electricity was becoming so scarce, they couldn’t understand why the price hadn’t been driven higher on what was supposed to be a free market.

Emily Louise had just set forth upon legal cap her opening conclusions upon the matter.

One day a middle-aged money-making lawyer, who bought his legal cap and ink of her, asked her across the counter to marry him.

“I never thought it would be so hard,” she said to herself when she had finished the tale and copied it out on legal cap paper.

Drawing a leather wallet from his inside pocket, he took out a folded legal cap document and opened it.

The brief consists of fifteen pages of legal cap paper only four of which are here given.

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