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legal weight
noun
- the weight of merchandise itself plus that of its immediate wrapping material but not of the outside shipping container: used especially in some Latin American countries for the purpose of assessing import duties.
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Laws passed by Congress have more legal weight than executive orders, so the NSF shouldn’t prioritize Trump’s order over its mandate to support underrepresented people in science, Scheppele said.
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So that's all gross and evil — but it's not entirely clear how much legal weight this screed has.
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A censure motion is politically symbolic but carries no constitutional or legal weight.
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Would a jury have accorded legal weight to Cash’s claim, in song, to have “shot a man in Reno just to watch him die�
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His words, written as part of a so-called mental health advance directive, hold legal weight.
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