legal consequences
Results from courts
Legal consequences are the outcomes imposed by law when rules are broken or obligations are not met.
These range from fines and penalties to imprisonment, civil liability, or loss of rights.
The phrase often appears as a warning: You could face serious legal consequences for tax evasion.
Distinguished from social or personal consequences, legal consequences involve courts, agencies, or formal enforcement mechanisms.
- punishmentPenalty for an offense
- jail timePeriod of imprisonment
- sanctionApproval or punitive measure
- fineAcceptable in quality
- penaltyPunishment for wrongdoing
restitution · incarceration · probation · repercussion · justice · litigation · damages · accountability · culpability · deterrence · civil liability · disbarment · conviction · forfeiture · judgment · rulings · due process · rehabilitation
- school attendanceattendance, absence, absences, truancy, tardy
- traffic violationsDUI, DWI, speeding, drunk driving, red light running
- infidelityadultery, affair, adulteress, cheating, cheater
- neglectneglect, neglected, abandonment, carelessness, disregard
- sovereigntynational sovereignty, statehood, nation, nation-state, state
- vandalismvandalism, defacement, tagging, defacing, graffiti tags
legal consequencesmoral consequences
Effects stemming from ethical actions
moral judgment · reputational damage · social ostracism · social stigma · peer judgment
legal consequenceslegal immunity
Protection from prosecution
impunity · immunity from prosecution · legal protection · amnesty · diplomatic immunity
legal consequencesgentleman's agreement
Informal pact based on trust
moral suasion · non-binding resolution · empty threat · dead letter
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