LEGAL OPINION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does legal opinion mean? 

• LEGAL OPINION (noun)
  The noun LEGAL OPINION has 1 sense:

1. the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision

  Familiarity information: LEGAL OPINION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEGAL OPINION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

judgement; judgment; legal opinion; opinion

Context example:

opinions are usually written by a single judge

Hypernyms ("legal opinion" is a kind of...):

instrument; legal document; legal instrument; official document ((law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "legal opinion"):

concurring opinion (an opinion that agrees with the court's disposition of the case but is written to express a particular judge's reasoning)

dissenting opinion (an opinion that disagrees with the court's disposition of the case)

majority opinion (the opinion joined by a majority of the court (generally known simply as 'the opinion'))

fatwah ((Islam) a legal opinion or ruling issued by an Islamic scholar)

dictum; obiter dictum (an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding)