The phrase "legal classification" is used correctly in written English and can be used in many contexts.
For example, you could say: "The court must consider the legal classification of the defendant before issuing a sentence."
This shift in legal classification may sound like lawyers quibbling, but it has real-world consequences.
The chief prosecutor, Thomas Haggstrom, lessened the legal classification of the level of suspicion to "reasonable" from "probable," but said the probe would continue.
While some Lebanese psychiatrists opposed the recent legal classification of homosexuality as "unnatural", Leila sang about gay seduction.
It's fine to respect their preference, but I think the writer should have made the situation of these people's medical and legal classification clearer.
But more to the point, Palestinian non-combatants are not mere civilians, but possess something more real, more alive, more sovereign than a distancing legal classification: the people in Gaza are citizens.
Actual toxicological evidence will not be available for weeks, but comparing unfamiliar drugs to a feared "Class A" (under the UK system of legal classification) substance like ecstasy or LSD is a classic way that the flames of panic have been fanned in the past.
Although local laws vary, there are generally three legal classifications for P.E.V.'s.
At first glance, the dispute would seem to hinge on semantics: the museum is prepared to refer to the objects, many more than a century old, as "cultural items," while the Apaches insist that they be designated as "sacred" and "items of cultural patrimony," legal classifications set out under federal law.
"I know that our hate speech policies go beyond the legal classifications, and they are all public, and we can get back to that on that," she said, falling back on yet another pledge to follow up.
Laws on wild animals apply to specific legal classifications of 'wild' animals, protected species, species that can be hunted, and so on, whereas laws on 'domestic' animals apply only through ownership (Vacher 1970).
"But in general, I believe we must be suspicious of legal classifications based solely on sexual orientation," Holder said.
