{
  "id": "legal.law",
  "term": "legal",
  "sense": "law",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "legal",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "that which is in a state that follows a law rule",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "law.rule",
      "state.condition"
    ],
    "interaction": "When a state follows a law rule, the condition becomes legal.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "binding authority",
      "public enforceability"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The U.S. Constitution remained legally binding after the 2020 presidential election, despite contested results in several states.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Toyota Production System operates within OSHA safety regulations at its Georgetown, Kentucky plant.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Bitcoin transactions on the mainnet comply with cryptographic consensus rules encoded in version 0.21.0.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "law.rule",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "corporate.business",
    "corporation.business",
    "court.legal"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "legal"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-legal.law"
}