Pseudolegality
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The appearance of legality of something that is not actually legal; The use of courts, police, or legal procedures to accomplish pseudolegal results. uncountable
"Legal theorists began asking in the 1950s how the legal system in the GDR, characterized as it was by a one-party state armed with extraordinary powers, differed from the pseudolegality of National Socialist Germany."
Example
More examples"Legal theorists began asking in the 1950s how the legal system in the GDR, characterized as it was by a one-party state armed with extraordinary powers, differed from the pseudolegality of National Socialist Germany."
Etymology
From pseudo- + legality.
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