What's the difference between legal and license?

Legal


Definition:

  • (a.) Created by, permitted by, in conformity with, or relating to, law; as, a legal obligation; a legal standard or test; a legal procedure; a legal claim; a legal trade; anything is legal which the laws do not forbid.
  • (a.) According to the law of works, as distinguished from free grace; or resting on works for salvation.
  • (a.) According to the old or Mosaic dispensation; in accordance with the law of Moses.
  • (a.) Governed by the rules of law as distinguished from the rules of equity; as, legal estate; legal assets.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Other articles in the series will look at particular legal problems in the dental specialties.
  • (2) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
  • (3) It is entirely proper for serving judges to set out the arguments in high-profile cases to help public understanding of the legal issues, as long as it is done in an even-handed way.
  • (4) Tables provide data for Denmark in reference to: 1) number of legal abortions and the abortion rates for 1940-1977; 2) distribution of abortions by season, 1972-1977; 3) abortion rates by maternal age, 1971-1977; 4) oral contraceptive and IUD sales for 1977-1978; and 5) number of births and estimated number of abortions and conceptions, 1960-1975.
  • (5) Neil Blessitt Bristol • We need to establish what the legal position is with regard to the establishment by the government of a private company co-owned by the Department of Health and the French firm Sopra Steria.
  • (6) This article discusses the advantages, clinical uses, limitations, and legal aspects of this mydriatic antagonist in optometric practice.
  • (7) And this has opened up a loophole for businesses to be morally bankrupt, ignoring the obligations to its workforce because no legal conduct has been established.” Whatever the outcome of the pending lawsuits, it’s unlikely that just one model will work for everybody.
  • (8) In view of many ethical and legal problems, connected in some countries with obtaining human fetal tissue for transplantation, cross-species transplants would be an attractive alternative.
  • (9) On 18 March 1996, the force agreed, without admitting any wrongdoing by any officer, to pay Tomkins £40,000 compensation, and £70,000 for his legal costs.
  • (10) The HKSAR government will continue to follow up on the matter so as to protect the legal rights of the people of Hong Kong."
  • (11) According to the Howard League for Penal Reform, which is backing the legal challenge, every year 75,0000 17-year-olds are held in custody.
  • (12) She successfully appealed against the council’s decision to refuse planning permission, but neighbours have launched a legal challenge to be heard at the high court in June.
  • (13) What’s needed is manifesto commitments from all the main political parties to improve the help single homeless people are legally entitled to.
  • (14) We believe our proposal will save taxpayers about £4m and reduce by about 11,000 the number of legally aided cases brought by prisoners each year.
  • (15) Defendants on legal aid will no longer be able to choose their solicitor.
  • (16) We now look forward to a judicial process which will apply impartial analysis and clear legal standards."
  • (17) Ethical, legal, and practical implications of this problem are discussed.
  • (18) While it’s not unknown to see such self-balancing mini scooters on the pavement, under legal guidance reiterated on Monday by the Crown Prosecution Service all such “personal transporters”, including hoverboards and Segways , are banned from the footpath.
  • (19) We are confident that the European commission’s state aid decision on Hinkley Point C is legally robust,” a spokeswoman for Britain’s Department of Energy and Climate Change said last week.
  • (20) At present, anyone can bring a legal action for an indefinite period over a posted article.

License


Definition:

  • (n.) Authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act; especially, a formal permission from the proper authorities to perform certain acts or to carry on a certain business, which without such permission would be illegal; a grant of permission; as, a license to preach, to practice medicine, to sell gunpowder or intoxicating liquors.
  • (n.) The document granting such permission.
  • (n.) Excess of liberty; freedom abused, or used in contempt of law or decorum; disregard of law or propriety.
  • (n.) That deviation from strict fact, form, or rule, in which an artist or writer indulges, assuming that it will be permitted for the sake of the advantage or effect gained; as, poetic license; grammatical license, etc.
  • (v. t.) To permit or authorize by license; to give license to; as, to license a man to preach.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "The level of the financial penalty to be imposed in this case should be sufficient to act as an effective incentive [to all broadcast licence holders] to continue to provide all elements of their respective licensed services throughout the licensed period, even if the licensee believes that there are commercial reasons for it to cease providing all or part of the licensed service during the licence period," the regulator added.
  • (2) Therefore, a comprehensive study of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 report forms was conducted from state-licensed testing laboratories in California.
  • (3) Instead, it was argued that abortion was a surgical procedure outside the expertise of CNMs and should only be performed by licensed physicians.
  • (4) Pope Francis’s no-longer-secret meeting in Washington DC with anti-gay activist Kim Davis, the controversial Kentucky county clerk who was briefly jailed over her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses in compliance with state law, leaves LGBT people with no illusions about the Pope’s stance on equal rights for us, despite his call for inclusiveness.
  • (5) Tension heightened last week after Davis continued to refuse licenses to couples; on Friday, she filed a request to the supreme court to stay the lower court’s decision.
  • (6) Two antiviral agents are licensed to treat HIV infection: zidovudine and didanosine.
  • (7) Cal Zastrow, also with the group, said that, although he has stood by Davis throughout the ordeal, he wouldn’t support the clerk’s policy to allow deputies to issue licenses without her authorization.
  • (8) "Hints that the license fee payer will be hit are the closest the Tories come to explaining how they intend to pay for this."
  • (9) The currently licensed parenteral cholera vaccine has not been a useful public health tool in the control of cholera.
  • (10) Golding said the government would not soften its stance on drug trafficking and it intended to use a proportion of revenues from its licensing authority to support a public education campaign to discourage pot-smoking by young people and mitigate public health consequences.
  • (11) Formal audits of the continuing medical education activities of physicians licensed in Michigan were undertaken to assess compliance with a law mandating participation in 150 hours of continuing medical education each 3 years.
  • (12) The Mail branded the deal "a grim day for all who value freedom" and, like the Times, accused David Cameron of crossing the Rubicon and threatening press freedom for the first time since newspapers were licensed in the 17th century.
  • (13) Workmen's Compensation claims from 193 licensed Florida hospitals were reviewed for 1970 to 1972, to seek possible nosocomial infection, and 55 claims for infection were found.
  • (14) In 2010, Path licensed the Silcs design to Kessel Marketing & Vertriebs GmbH (Kessel) of Frankfurt, Germany.
  • (15) When it was first licensed for the European food market six years ago, baobab was – with a certain inevitability –proclaimed a superfood to rival quinoa, blueberries and kale.
  • (16) In a statement the club said: "We currently are in discussions with multiple parties regarding our global retail, apparel and product licensing business starting in the 2015-16 season.
  • (17) "Prime-time dramas aren't usually properties that are licensed [for merchandising] with the exception of the family-orientated Doctor Who.
  • (18) The unexpected announcement by Eric Holder, the attorney general, contradicts Utah’s refusal to recognise some 1,300 same-sex marriages that were licensed during a brief window in December when a federal judge ruled the state’s ban was unconstitutional .
  • (19) Last week, Jindal told a conference that corporate America has fashioned an “unnatural alliance with the radical left” by opposing so-called religious freedom bills that gay rights activists fear would give businesses a license to discriminate.
  • (20) Davis has said she will not resign her $80,000-a-year job and will never issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples – even if the supreme court denies her request.