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Legacy system
A legacy system, also called legacy software, is an existing computer system whose continued use creates burden or risk, typically because its technology is obsolete or unsupported.
Legacy Venture
Legacy Venture was a Palo Alto, California-based manager of philanthropic venture capital funds of funds, founded in 1999 by Russ Hall, whose investors pledged to donate their proceeds to charity.
Legacy waste
Legacy waste is hazardous and radioactive waste from nuclear weapons production and nuclear energy research since World War II and the Cold War, mostly in the United States.
Legacy Way
Legacy Way, formerly the Northern Link Tunnel, is a 4.6-kilometer twin two-lane toll tunnel in Brisbane, Australia, opened in 2015 and linking the Western Freeway to the Inner City Bypass.
Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years
Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years (John's Version) is John Fogerty's 2025 Concord album of 20 re-recorded CCR-era songs, made after he reclaimed publishing rights, backed by his children.
Legal & General
Legal & General Group plc is a British financial services group combining life insurance, pension risk transfer, and asset management, founded in London in 1836.
Legal Abortion
Legal abortion is pregnancy termination performed under a jurisdiction's law. Also called legalized or lawful abortion. Distinguished by safety evidence (0.7 vs 8.8 deaths per 100,000 vs childbirth), global liberalization trends, and post-Dobbs US travel and telehealth access.
Legal affairs of Elon Musk
Legal affairs of Elon Musk: SEC cases (2018 funding-secured tweets, 2025 late Twitter 13D filing settled at $1.5 million), Twitter merger litigation, the lost OpenAI suit, his companies' suits against critics and agencies, and DOGE challenges.
Legal affairs of the second Trump presidency
Legal affairs of the second Trump presidency: executive orders on independent agencies, Supreme Court removal and emergency-docket rulings, DOJ voter-roll litigation, press-access disputes, and expert surveys finding the lowest rule-of-law ratings since 2015.
Legal affairs of the Tate brothers
Legal affairs of Andrew and Tristan Tate: Romanian criminal cases (2022 arrest, 2023 and 2026 indictments), 59 UK charges, Miami US extradition arrest and detention rulings, civil suits, and asset-forfeiture proceedings.
Legal aid
Legal aid: state-funded legal advice, assistance, and representation for people who cannot afford it, covering criminal and civil matters; anchored in Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) and the 1964 Criminal Justice Act in the US.
Legal deposit
Legal deposit: laws requiring publishers to deliver copies of publications to national libraries, preserving a nation's published heritage. Covers UK (since 1662), Canada, US, Japan, Norway, and digital deposit.
Legal disputes over the Harry Potter series
Legal disputes over the Harry Potter series center on Warner Bros. and J.K. Rowling v. RDR Books (2008), which blocked the print Harry Potter Lexicon as infringement, rejecting fair use, and later AI-memorization controversies.
Legal disputes over the validity of the Japan–Korea annexation treaties
The legal disputes over the validity of the Japan–Korea annexation treaties concern whether the 1904–1910 treaties by which Japan annexed Korea were valid or null from coercion and missing imperial assent.
Legal drama
Legal drama, also called courtroom or lawyer drama, is a film and TV genre centered on lawyers, judges, and trials. Key series include Perry Mason, L.A. Law, Law & Order, and Suits; research links it to the Perry Mason and CSI effects.
Legal drinking age
Legal drinking age: minimum age to buy or drink alcohol. US MLDA is 21 via the 1984 highway-funding act; global default purchase age is 18; higher ages reduce youth crashes and drinking.
Legal effects of adoption in Canada
A Canadian adoption order makes the child, in law, the child of the adoptive parents, ending the legal parent-child relationship with the birth parents, including inheritance rights.
Legal effects of adoption in the United States
In the United States, a decree of adoption creates a legal parent-child relationship with an adoptive parent and generally ends the prior legal parent-child relationship, except in stepparent or second-parent adoptions.
Legal Entity Identifier
The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) is a 20-character ISO 17442 code that uniquely identifies legal entities in financial transactions, created by the G20 in 2012 after the global financial crisis.
Legal guardian
Legal guardian: a court-appointed fiduciary who makes personal or property decisions for a ward, a minor or incapacitated adult. Covers Roman and common law origins, duties, oversight, US foster-care guardianship statutes, and comparisons with adoption and custody.
Legal history of cannabis in Canada
Legal history of cannabis in Canada: prohibition from 1923, medical legalization in 2000, and the Cannabis Act of October 17, 2018, which made Canada the first major industrialized country to legalize recreational cannabis.
Legal history of cannabis in the United States
Legal history of cannabis in the United States: from legal 19th-century medicine to the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, CSA Schedule I (1970), state medical and recreational legalization, and the 2024 Schedule III rescheduling proposal.
Legal issues in airsoft
Legal issues in airsoft cover replica-firearm regulation: US federal orange-tip marking under 15 USC 5001, state and city bans, Canadian and Australian restrictions, UK VCRA rules, police-encounter risks, and product liability.
Legal issues of Chris Brown
Legal issues of Chris Brown: criminal and civil matters involving the R&B singer, from the 2009 Rihanna felony assault conviction through the 2026 London nightclub affray guilty plea, probation violations, and the dismissed Warner Bros. defamation suit.
Legal liability
Legal liability is the state of being legally answerable for a wrong or a debt, so a court can require payment of damages or another sanction.
Legal Mavericks (踩过界)
Legal Mavericks (踩过界; mainland title 盲侠大律师) is a 2017 TVB Hong Kong legal drama, 28 episodes, starring Vincent Wong as a blind barrister, with a 2020 sequel, Legal Mavericks 2020.
Legal medicine
Legal medicine, also called forensic medicine or medical jurisprudence, applies medical knowledge to questions of law, spanning forensic pathology, toxicology, psychiatry, and clinical forensic medicine, with death investigation as its central activity.
Legal metrology
Legal metrology is the application of legal requirements to measurements and measuring instruments, performed by governmental authorities to ensure confidence in results such as fuel, utility, and retail transactions.
Legal person
Legal person: any human or non-human entity, such as a corporation, treated as a person able to sue, own property, and contract. Rooted in Roman universitas and medieval persona ficta, affirmed in Salomon v Salomon.
Legal positivism
Legal positivism is a theory in philosophy of law holding that the existence and content of law are matters of social facts, not of the law's moral merits.