legal weight

noun

the weight of merchandise itself plus that of its immediate wrapping material but not of the outside shipping container: used especially in some Latin American countries for the purpose of assessing import duties.

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Some people in the transgender community now worry GRCs have lost their legal weight and will only serve a symbolic purpose from now on.

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Laws passed by Congress have more legal weight than executive orders, so the NSF shouldn’t prioritize Trump’s order over its mandate to support underrepresented people in science, Scheppele said.

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So that's all gross and evil — but it's not entirely clear how much legal weight this screed has.

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A censure motion is politically symbolic but carries no constitutional or legal weight.

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Would a jury have accorded legal weight to Cash’s claim, in song, to have “shot a man in Reno just to watch him die”?

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