PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 39
COMPLETE ROUTE ↗STAGE 04globalNO SINGLE PIN
15th century–today
Global English
legal DOSSIER ↗legal expands through law, institutions, and rule-governed domains.
- COORDINATES STORED
- NO
- HONEST TO PLOT
- NO
- PLACEMENT MODE
- global
- TIME PRECISION
- open
- NUMERIC TIME BOUND
- YES
- CLAIM CITATIONS
- 1
THIS STAGE ENTERS THE TIMELINE.
The English adjective is attested from the fifteenth-century first-known-use horizon and remains current across later legal and rule-governed senses.
PLACE IN GLOBAL CHRONOLOGY ↗DIRECT STAGE-LEVEL PROVENANCE
AUDIT THE ROUTE CLAIM.
Every source below identifies its exact stance, locator, and evidentiary contribution.
- supports
Legal — Word History
Documents modern law-, institution-, court-, and rule-related senses and dates the first known adjectival English use to the fifteenth century.
Definitions 1–6 and First Known UseAUDIT SOURCE ↗