legal principle

Questions about legal principle

What does legal principle mean?

legal principle means "(law) a principle underlying the formulation of jurisprudence".

What is another word for legal principle?

Close synonyms include judicial principle, judicial doctrine. 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 principle a common word?

legal principle 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.