Even if their owners choose to grant them legal independence, they must pass a standard test to demonstrate self-awareness.

As such, she enjoyed legal and social independence which other married women could not (see Coverture).

The Office is a public establishment which enjoys legal, administrative and financial independence.

It has financial, legal and administrative independence and reports directly to the Prime Minister.

Thus the entire world became aware of the legal independence of that entity.

The defining feature of a corporation is its legal independence from the people who create it.

"The Afghan government wants to show it still has power and legal independence."

Pitted against it were the great princes, some with ambition to achieve political and legal independence of the crown.

Those network members subsequently cooperate on solving specific law cases, preserving their economic and legal independence.

Daughters, however, continued to have little or no legal independence, although after the eighth century they could no longer be forced into marriage by their parents.