legal injury

1. 1.

   any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right

   Synonymswrongdamage

   Broaderinjury

Questions about legal injury

What does legal injury mean?

legal injury means "any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right".

What is another word for legal injury?

Close synonyms include wrong, damage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is legal injury a common word?

legal injury is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.