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Meaning of "legal costs" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LEGAL COSTS

legal costs  [ˈliːɡəl kɒsts] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LEGAL COSTS

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adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Legal costs is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LEGAL COSTS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Costs in English law

In English civil litigation, costs are the lawyers' fees and other disbursements of the parties that a judge has the power to order after judgment has been given. The law of costs defines how such allocation is to take place.

Definition of legal costs in the English dictionary

The definition of legal costs in the dictionary is the costs of a court action; the judge decides which side should pay them.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LEGAL COSTS


chemist´s
ˈkemɪsts
costs
kɒsts
druggist´s
ˈdrʌɡɪsts
firsts
fɜːsts
florist´s
ˈflɒrɪsts
interests
ˈɪntrəsts
lists
lɪsts
oncosts
ˈɒnˌkɒsts
wastes
weɪsts

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LEGAL COSTS

legal adviser
legal aid
legal cap
legal currency
legal department
legal document
legal eagle
legal entity
legal fees
legal fiction
legal high
legal holiday
legal limit
legal medicine
legal offence
legal opinion
legal positivism
legal proceedings
legal process
legal profession

WORDS THAT END LIKE LEGAL COSTS

bill of costs
fixed costs
general costs
indirect costs
labour costs
Lord of Hosts
maintenance costs
move the goalposts
overhead costs
postage costs
production costs
relocation costs
running costs
salvage costs
start-up costs
sunk costs
warehousing costs

Synonyms and antonyms of legal costs in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «legal costs» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LEGAL COSTS

Find out the translation of legal costs to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of legal costs from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «legal costs» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

法律费用
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

costos legales
570 millions of speakers

English

legal costs
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कानूनी खर्च
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التكاليف القانونية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

судебные издержки
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

custos legais
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আইনি খরচ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

les frais juridiques
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kos undang-undang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Rechtskosten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

訴訟費用
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

법률 비용
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Biaya legal
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chi phí pháp lý
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சட்ட செலவுகள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कायदेशीर खर्च
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yasal maliyetler
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

spese legali
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

koszty sądowe
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

судові витрати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cheltuielile de judecată
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

νομικά έξοδα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

regskoste
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

rättegångskostnader
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

juridiske kostnader
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of legal costs

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LEGAL COSTS»

The term «legal costs» is regularly used and occupies the 70.624 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LEGAL COSTS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about legal costs

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LEGAL COSTS»

Discover the use of legal costs in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to legal costs and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Containing legal costs: ADR strategies for corporations, law ...
ADR strategies for major, complex corporate and governmental disputes are provided in this text, which includes dozens of model procedures and case examples in a number of substantive law areas.
Erika S. Fine, Elizabeth S. Plapinger, CPR Legal Program, 1988
2
Controlling Corporate Legal Costs: Negotiation and ADR ...
Learning to take control and working to resolve your own disputes is the best way to manage the dispute-resolution process.
Kenneth James Thygerson, 1994
3
Legal Project Management: Control Costs, Meet Schedules, ...
Do more with less. The emerging field of Legal Project Management offers a powerful new approach. As described in this groundbreaking book, Legal Project Management is not an alien discipline, full of jargon and process overhead.
Steven B. Levy, 2009
4
The Legal Costs of Special Education in the Public School System
The legal cost of special education is an issue that public school districts must examine in today's educational climate.
Barbara Elizabeth Warshaw, 2006
5
Legal Strategies: How Corporations Use Law to Improve ...
In certain jurisdictions, e.g. England and Wales, the “Law of Costs” implies that the “costs follow the event”, i.e. that the loser in a case is ordered at trial to pay some or all of the other side's legal costs. A key feature is that there is considerable ...
Antoine Masson, Mary J. Shariff, 2009
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Paths to Justice: What People Do and Think about Going to Law
those experiencing divorce and separation problems, where a little over half of those incurring legal costs received legal aid. Those experiencing other kinds of justiciable problem who incurred legal costs were far less likely to have received  ...
Hazel G. Genn, Sarah Beinart, 1999
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Mediating Legal Disputes: Effective Strategies for Neutrals ...
Draw attention to the costs of litigating The legal system ordinarily does not reimburse parties for their legal costs, and in civil litigation these are often huge. Legal costs are in some ways even worse than bad outcomes, because while parties ...
Dwight Golann, 2009
8
Legal Issues for the Medical Practitioner
What is more often overlooked is the significance on legal costs in terms of the risks for a litigant. First, a verdict is separately given to the decision on legal costs. Very often the winning party will also get legal costs but this is not a must.
David Sau-yan Wong, 2010
9
The Performance Consultant's Fieldbook: Tools and Techniques ...
... and development (R&D) costs; training and HR costs; and accounting and legal costs. (Administration, marketing and advertising, R&D, training and HR, and accounting and legal costs include costs for salaries and benefits, facility use by ...
Judith Hale, 2006
10
Fundamentals of Oil & Gas Accounting
This payment is typically the most significant unproved property acquisition cost. Certain incidental acquisition costs such as brokers' fees, legal costs, and options to lease may also be incurred. Brokers' fees are fees that are paid to real estate ...
Charlotte J. Wright, Rebecca A. Gallun, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LEGAL COSTS»

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Modesto, MID legal costs in their dispute top $4.5 million and …
Modesto, MID legal costs in their dispute top $4.5 million and growing. City, irrigation district fighting over $9 million in extra costs for botched ... «Modesto Bee, Jul 15»
2
Goldman Sachs Q2 earnings slump on legal costs - StamfordAdvocate
NEW YORK (AP) — Goldman Sachs' second-quarter profit slumped by more than 50 percent after the firm set aside $1.45 billion for legal costs ... «The Advocate, Jul 15»
3
Bank of America Addresses a Big Decrease in Legal Costs - Live …
Bank of America Addresses a Big Decrease in Legal Costs. Posted by: : Ivy AuvanPosted on: July 18, 2015 Bank of America Addresses a Big Decrease in Legal ... «Live Trading News, Jul 15»
4
Legal Costs Mar A Strong Operating Performance By Goldman In Q2
The bank also did well on the cost front, as total operating costs fell by more than 2% year-on-year (adjusted for legal costs) despite revenues ... «Forbes, Jul 15»
5
Rupert Murdoch's News UK shamed by failure to pay legal costs
Press Gazette reports that around lunchtime on Thursday, journalist Dennis Rice launched an appeal to raise France's legal costs. He said:. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
6
Pot shop ordered to pay Yakima's legal costs
Yakima County Superior Court Judge David Elofson this afternoon granted the city's petition for $1,235 in legal costs from Happy Time and its ... «Yakima Herald-Republic, Jul 15»
7
Court says insurance company is not liable for Liberty's legal costs
Liberty University will have to pay its own legal costs stemming from a civil suit filed after a Forest woman fled the country with her biological ... «Lynchburg News and Advance, Jul 15»
8
Bank of America profits jump as legal costs drop - StamfordAdvocate
NEW YORK (AP) — Bank of America's profits more than doubled in the second quarter thanks to lower legal costs and progress in resolving ... «The Advocate, Jul 15»
9
Goldman Sachs' legal costs soar to $1.45bn in Q2
The bank reports a five-fold increase in legal costs and provisions due to ongoing litigation and regulatory investigations Goldman Sachs' legal costs and ... «Legal Week, Jul 15»
10
Issue of who pays River City Vineyard's legal costs being left to the …
Sarnia city council will let the court decide if the city has to pay any of River City Vineyard's legal costs. A majority of council voted Friday to ... «Sarnia Observer, Jul 15»

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