The marriage was a legal construct, and went unconsummated for years.

Western legal culture is unified in the systematic reliance on legal constructs.

Martial law may be declared in cases of major natural disasters, however most countries use a different legal construct, such as a state of emergency.

The state of Louisiana does not have an actual legal construct called "martial law," but instead something quite like it: a state of public health emergency.

One of the city's rare legal constructs, the servant or plaything of someone rich?

Another reason was that two daughters were to become nuns and this legal construct avoided their convents sharing in the inheritance.

It is an organizational and moral rather than a legal construct.

However, the Jewish Laws remained a medieval legal construct until the 19th Century.

Khanna and Rivkin suggest that business groups are typically not legal constructs though some regulatory bodies have attempted to codify a definition.

Repeat after me: the Bill of Rights does not apply to corporations, which are Limited Liability legal constructs.