legal representative

1. 1.

   a personal representative with legal standing (as by power of attorney or the executor of a will)

   Broaderpersonal representative

   law

Questions about legal representative

What does legal representative mean?

legal representative means "a personal representative with legal standing (as by power of attorney or the executor of a will)".

Is legal representative a common word?

legal representative 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.