legal protection
Rights under law
Legal protection refers to safeguards provided by law against harm, loss, or violation of rights.
It encompasses the rights and remedies available through the legal system: The contract offers legal protection against liability, Whistleblowers need legal protection from retaliation.
The phrase often appears in discussions of vulnerable groups or contested rights: legal protection for refugees, legal protection of intellectual property.
- due processGuaranteed judicial fairness
- fair trialImpartial judicial proceeding
- freedom of speechProtected right to speak
- religious freedomRight to practice faith
- minimum wage lawsLegislated lowest permissible pay
trademarks · Miranda rights · trade secrets · intellectual property · human rights · whistleblower protections · restraining order · presumption of innocence · privacy rights · freedom of assembly · civil liberties · copyrights · self-defense laws · habeas corpus · contract enforcement · non-disclosure agreement · right to vote · diplomatic immunity
- intellectual propertypatents, copyright, patent, trademark, trademarks
- ageismageism, age discrimination, elder abuse, elder neglect, adultism
- equal rightsequal treatment, equal pay, equal opportunity, discrimination law, anti-discrimination
- LGBTQ rightsgay rights, trans rights, lesbian rights, gay marriage, marriage equality
- spousal rightsspousal rights, equal partnership, conjugal rights, divorce rights, inheritance rights
- juvenile lawjuvenile law, juvenile court, juvenile courts, juvenile justice, juvenile rights
legal protectiondefenselessness
State of being unprotected
rightlessness · statelessness · legal limbo · legal liability · legal jeopardy
legal protectionvigilante justice
Unauthorized punishment by civilians
mob justice · taking the law into one's own hands · lynch law · frontier justice · lynching
legal protectioncriminalization
Making conduct unlawful
proscription · attainder · outlawry · prosecution · disenfranchisement