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Legislature
Legislature: a deliberative assembly that makes laws, also called parliament or congress. Core functions are lawmaking, oversight, and representation; structures range from unicameral to bicameral, with Iceland's Alþingi (930 AD) among the oldest.
Legitimacy (family law)
Legitimacy in family law is a child's legal status based on parents' marriage at birth, historically tied to the marital presumption of paternity, legitimation by subsequent marriage, inheritance rights, and twentieth-century reforms abolishing illegitimacy distinctions.
Legitimacy doctrine of titular and claimed thrones
The legitimacy doctrine of titular and claimed thrones is the set of legal rules judging whether a pretender to an abolished throne has a valid claim.
Legitimacy of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
Legitimacy of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, also called Operation Allied Force or the Kosovo air campaign: the 1999 bombing lacked UN Security Council authorization and was judged 'illegal but legitimate' by the Independent International Commission on Kosovo.
Legitimation
Legitimation is the social process by which authorities, institutions, or practices come to be seen as appropriate and just, producing voluntary deference; studied by Weber, Berger and Luckmann, Tyler, and organizational and global-governance scholarship.
Legitime
Legitime (legitima portio, legitime, forced share): the legally reserved minimum portion of an estate owed to close family despite a will, rooted in Roman law's legitimata and querela inofficiosi testamenti, and today the basis of forced heirship in civil law countries.
Légitime Défense
Légitime Défense was a French-language literary and political journal published in Paris in 1932 by Marxist and surrealist Martinican students, its single issue a manifesto of anticolonial revolt and precursor of Négritude.
Legitimists
The Legitimists (légitimistes) were the French party that, after 1830, backed the elder Bourbons as rightful kings by divine right, dissolving on the Comte de Chambord's death in 1883.
Legless lizard
Legless lizards are lizards from several lineages that independently lost or reduced limbs, unlike snakes. Distinguished by ear openings, eyelids, fleshy tongue, long tail, and uniform belly scales.
Legna Verdecia
Legna Verdecia Rodríguez (born 1972, Manzanillo, Cuba), Cuban judoka, half-lightweight -52 kg. Olympic gold Sydney 2000 (beating Noriko Narazaki by ippon), bronze Atlanta 1996, world champion 1993; three Pan American and three Central American and Caribbean titles.
Legnano
Legnano, Lombard town in the Alto Milanese about 25 km northwest of Milan; site of Frederick Barbarossa's 1176 defeat by the Lombard League; textile-industrial past, Legnano bicycles, Palio di Legnano.
Legnica
Legnica (Liegnitz) is a county-rights city in Lower Silesia, Poland, with about 90,343 inhabitants, known for the 1241 Battle of Legnica against the Mongols, the Piast castle, and the Legnica Special Economic Zone.
Lego
Lego is a line of plastic construction toys and the Danish company behind them, founded by Ole Kirk Christiansen in Billund in 1932 and now the world's largest toy manufacturer.
Lego Architecture
Lego Architecture is the LEGO Group's display-model line of famous buildings and skylines, created by architect Adam Reed Tucker and launched in 2008 with the Sears Tower and John Hancock Center sets; its Sagrada Família (21065) is the largest LEGO set ever at 12,060 pieces.
Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes
Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes, 2012 TT Games action-adventure, first LEGO game with voice acting and open-world Gotham; Batman, Robin, Superman vs Lex Luthor and Joker; 75 characters, 3.5M+ sold, 2013 BAFTA winner.
Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham
Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham is a 2014 TT Games action-adventure, the third LEGO Batman game, in which Batman, the Justice League, and Lantern Corps stop Brainiac from shrinking Earth, with over 150 playable characters and a Metacritic score of 73.
Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight
Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight (2026) is TT Games' fourth LEGO Batman game, an open-world Arkham-inspired action-adventure published by Warner Bros. Games for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch 2, and PC, released May 22, 2026 with local co-op only.
Lego Batman: The Videogame
Lego Batman: The Videogame (LEGO Batman 1) is a 2008 Traveller's Tales action-adventure game published by Warner Bros., the first Lego game with an original storyline, with 30 hero and villain levels and a Metacritic score of 76.
Lego City Undercover
Lego City Undercover (LEGO City: Undercover) is a 2013 TT Fusion open-world action-adventure game for Wii U, starring cop Chase McCain hunting Rex Fury; remastered for Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and PC in 2017.
Lego clone
A Lego clone is a construction-toy brick system made by a company other than the LEGO Group, dimensionally compatible with Lego elements and sold under its own brand name.
Lego DC Super-Villains
Lego DC Super-Villains is an action-adventure game released in 2018 by TT Games. It is the first to feature a fully customizable villain playable throughout the campaign.
Lego Dimensions
Lego Dimensions: TT Games' 2015 toys-to-life game for Xbox, PlayStation, and Wii U, using a LEGO Toy Pad with NFC zones; starter pack $100 with Batman, Gandalf, Wyldstyle, and Batmobile across fourteen franchises.
Lego Disney Princess: Magical Mayhem
LEGO Disney Princess: Magical Mayhem is a 26-minute 2026 Disney+ animated special, the third in the LEGO Disney Princess series, in which Ariel, Jasmine, Mulan, Moana, Rapunzel, Snow White, and Tiana battle Cheshire Cat chaos in their castle.
Lego Disney Princess: Villains Unite
Lego Disney Princess: Villains Unite, also styled LEGO Disney Princess: Villains Unite, is a 2025 Atomic Cartoons animated Disney+ special, a Castle Quest sequel in which Gaston recruits Ursula, Jafar, and the Evil Queen against the Lego princesses, premiering August 25, 2025.
LEGO Duplo
LEGO Duplo is a preschool construction-toy line from the LEGO Group, launched in 1969, with large bricks that interlock with standard LEGO bricks and suit children from 18 months old.
LEGO Education
LEGO Education is the educational division of the LEGO Group, which develops hands-on learning products, programmable robotics sets, and lesson plans for preschool through grade 8.
LEGO Education SPIKE
LEGO Education SPIKE is a line of programmable robotics and STEAM learning sets from LEGO Education, with SPIKE Prime for middle school and SPIKE Essential for primary grades.
Lego Fortnite
Lego Fortnite (LEGO Fortnite Odyssey, LEGO Fortnite Brick Life) is a free survival crafting game by Epic Games and the LEGO Group inside Fortnite, launched December 7, 2023, with up to 8-player worlds and 2.45 million concurrent players at release.
Lego Friends
Lego Friends is a Lego theme launched December 2011/2012 featuring five characters, Olivia, Mia, Andrea, Stephanie, and Emma, in Heartlake City, using a taller mini-doll figure; it doubled sales expectations in 2012 and remains in production.
Lego Harry Potter: Years 1–4
Lego Harry Potter: Years 1–4, TT Games' 2010 action-adventure (Warner Bros. publisher), retells the first four Harry Potter stories across 24 story levels with spells, co-op, and a Hogwarts hub; Metacritic 79.