legal instrument

Questions about legal instrument

What does legal instrument mean?

legal instrument means "(law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right".

What is another word for legal instrument?

Close synonyms include legal document, official document, instrument. 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 instrument a common word?

legal instrument 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.