legal opinion

Questions about legal opinion

What does legal opinion mean?

legal opinion means "the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision".

What is another word for legal opinion?

Close synonyms include opinion, judgment, judgement. 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 opinion a common word?

legal opinion 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.