legal relation

1. 1.

   a professional relation that is regulated by law (as between a lawyer and a client)

   Broaderprofessional relation

   Narrowerfiduciary relation

   law

Questions about legal relation

What does legal relation mean?

legal relation means "a professional relation that is regulated by law (as between a lawyer and a client)".

Is legal relation a common word?

legal relation 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.