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Legality of incest in the United States
Incest laws in the United States: every state bans incestuous marriage, nearly all criminalize incest between close relatives, with New Jersey and Rhode Island not prosecuting consensual adult incest and Ohio limiting its statute to parent-child relationships.
Legality of polygamy
Legality of polygamy: marriage with more than two spouses is legal to some degree in over 40 countries, mostly Middle East, Africa, and Asia, almost always as polygyny capped at four wives, while criminalized in Western states.
Legality of the Iraq War
Legality of the Iraq War: whether the 19 March 2003 US-led invasion (Operation Iraqi Freedom) was lawful under the UN Charter. Turned on the disputed 'revival' of SCR 678 via SCR 1441, absent Security Council authorization, preemptive self-defense arguments, and the Chilcot Inquiry's 'far from satisfactory' UK legal justification.
Legally binding memoranda of understanding in international law
A legally binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) is an international agreement that constitutes a treaty under international law despite its informal title, as the ICJ confirmed in Somalia v Kenya.
Legally Blonde
Legally Blonde (2001) is an MGM comedy directed by Robert Luketic, starring Reese Witherspoon as Elle Woods, a sorority president who follows her ex to Harvard Law School; based on Amanda Brown's novel, it grossed $142 million and spawned sequels, a musical, and the Elle prequel series.
Legally Blonde (musical)
Legally Blonde: The Musical is a 2007 two-act musical comedy by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin (book Heather Hach), based on Amanda Brown's novel and the 2001 film. Broadway ran 595 performances; the West End won three Olivier Awards including Best New Musical.
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003), MGM comedy sequel directed by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld, written by Kate Kondell, starring Reese Witherspoon as Elle Woods fighting animal testing in Congress; 35% Tomatometer, Metascore 47.
Legally Blondes
Legally Blondes (2009) is a direct-to-video Legally Blonde franchise comedy, also known as Legally Blonde 3 in some markets, directed by Savage Steve Holland and starring twins Milly and Becky Rosso as Elle Woods' British cousins Annie and Izzy Woods.
Legally Declared Dead
Legally Declared Dead (死因無可疑, Sei Jan Mou Ho Ji) is a 2019 Hong Kong psychological thriller directed by Yuen Kim-wai, starring Anthony Wong, Karena Lam, and Carlos Chan, adapted from Yusuke Kishi's novel The Black House about a suspected insurance-fraud murder.
LegalOn Technologies
LegalOn Technologies (株式会社リーガルオンテクノロジーズ), formerly LegalForce, is a Tokyo-based AI legal tech company founded by two former corporate lawyers in 2017; its LegalForce contract review service launched in 2019.
LegalPlace
LegalPlace is a French legaltech company based in Paris, founded in 2016, that sells company formation, legal documents, and accounting services to entrepreneurs through a software platform.
LegalZoom
LegalZoom is an American online legal services company founded in 1999 by attorneys including Robert Shapiro, offering self-service documents, business formation, and attorney access; it went public in 2021.
Leganés, Madrid
Leganés, a municipality in metropolitan south Madrid, Spain; over 191,000 inhabitants (2023), founded 1280, Villa since 1626; hosts UC3M, IMDEA Networks, and the regional AI cluster.
LeGarrette Blount
LeGarrette Blount, former NFL running back (born 1986, Madison, Florida), undrafted from Oregon; played nine seasons for six teams, won three Super Bowls, led NFL with 18 rushing TDs in 2016, retired 2020.
Legato
Legato (Italian "bound", from legare) is the musical articulation of playing or singing notes smoothly connected with no audible separation, marked by slurs, opposite to staccato, executed differently on strings, winds, piano, voice, and guitar.
Legatus
Legatus is a monotypic genus of tyrant flycatchers established by Philip Lutley Sclater in 1859. Its single species, the piratic flycatcher, breeds by usurping the nests of other birds.
Legazpi expedition
The Legazpi expedition was the Spanish fleet commanded by Miguel López de Legazpi that sailed from New Spain in 1564 and founded the first permanent Spanish settlement in the Philippines, on Cebu, in 1565.
Legazpi, Albay
Legazpi (City of Legazpi, formerly Legaspi) is the capital component city of Albay, Philippines, chartered by RA 306 in 1948. Population 210,616 (2024); Bicol regional hub at the foot of Mayon Volcano, exposed to typhoons and lahars.
Legence Corp.
Legence Corp. is a San Jose, California-based provider of engineering, installation, and maintenance services for mission-critical building systems, a Blackstone portfolio company listed on Nasdaq as LGN since 2025.
Legend
Legend: a traditional narrative told as true or believable, recounting extraordinary or supernatural events in the everyday world, distinct from myth and folktale by belief, recent setting, human heroes, and local attachment, extending today to urban and digital legends.
Legend (1985 film)
Legend (1985) is Ridley Scott's fantasy film, written by William Hjortsberg, starring Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, and Tim Curry. Released in Europe in 1985 with Jerry Goldsmith's score and in the US in 1986 recut to 89 minutes with Tangerine Dream music, it flopped but became a cult classic.
Legend (2015 film)
Legend (2015) is Brian Helgeland's biographical crime thriller about Kray twins Reggie and Ronnie, both played by Tom Hardy, based on John Pearson's The Profession of Violence; Metascore 55, mixed reviews.
Legend (Bob Marley and the Wailers album)
Legend: The Best of Bob Marley and the Wailers is a 14-track 1984 Island Records posthumous compilation, the best-selling reggae album ever, certified 18x Platinum in the US and 14x Platinum in the UK.
Legend (disambiguation)
Legend (disambiguation) covers the folklore genre of stories told as true, urban or contemporary legends, map and chart legends as explanatory keys, the LEGEND neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment, and the journal Contemporary Legend.
Legend (Lu novel)
Legend (2011) is Marie Lu's debut YA dystopian novel from Putnam, first of the Legend series with Prodigy, Champion, and Rebel. It alternates the perspectives of fugitive Day and military prodigy June in a divided future North America.
Legend (లెజెండ్) (2014 film)
Legend (లెజెండ్) is a 2014 Telugu masala action drama directed by Boyapati Srinu, starring Nandamuri Balakrishna in a double role with Jagapathi Babu, Radhika Apte, and Sonal Chauhan; released 28 March 2014, it became Balakrishna's highest grosser and won eight Nandi Awards.
Legend Bey
Legend Bey, North Forney High School (Forney, Texas) quarterback and four-star 2026 athlete, signed with Ohio State after flipping twice between the Buckeyes and Tennessee; he is now an Ohio State freshman running back, No. 2, with 10.23-second 100-meter speed.
Legend Biotech (南京传奇生物)
Legend Biotech (南京传奇生物) is a Nanjing-based, commercial-stage cell therapy company founded in 2014, known for CARVYKTI, an anti-BCMA CAR-T therapy for multiple myeloma co-developed with Janssen.
Legend Biotech Corporation
Legend Biotech Corporation is a biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey, that develops CAR-T cell therapies for cancer, including the approved multiple myeloma treatment CARVYKTI.
Legend Capital (venture capital firm)
Legend Capital, also known as 君联资本, is a Chinese venture capital and growth equity firm founded in Beijing in 2001 within the Legend, now Lenovo, group.