At a news conference yesterday, local officials said both weapons appeared to have been acquired legally.

Cell phone data can be legally acquired by the use of a subpoena.

The fact is that most crimes are not committed using legally acquired weapons.

Not all of them, he said, were acquired legally.

The gun had been acquired legally, and calls were later made to ban its sale in Canada.

A third was shown to have been legally acquired, and was sold in 1978.

Nevertheless, she said, the auction house was confident that they had been legally acquired.

You're deciding that the current model of legally acquiring something is not to your taste and as a result using an illegal method.

Acquisition - This type of relationship occurs when one company legally acquires the other.

For everything beyond that, people would have to demonstrate that the money was legally acquired.