are: juridique/jurídico where le droit/el derecho, law in all its forms, is concerned; and legal/legal, where la loi/la ley, written law, enacted law, legislation is concerned. - 1145 - (ii) Permitted by law, not prohibited bv law, according to law. re.ÇQgnizsd..M, law, for which the French and Spanish equivalents are légal/legal; in this sense lawful is a synonym of legal and should be used in order to avoid ambiguity. 4/ (iii) According to common law as opposed to equity. This distinction is non-existent in civil law systems and is unlikely to be encountered in translating legal/legal into English. The terms in which it is expressed in French and Spanish lie outside the scope of the present note. The fact that legal/legal refer to written law and juridique/jurídico to law as a whole sometimes needs to be made clear in English. In such a case the distinction is best made by translating legal/legal by a paraphrase such as at law or by operation of law, or by statutory. Examples of these renderings are given in the body of the glossary. By operation of law carries the connotation of automatically, regardlesss of the volition of the parties concerned; for instance, when a person dies intestate in England, his or her estate vests by operation of law and therefore automatically in the Probate Judge because section 9 of the Administration of Estates Act 1925 so provides. Statutory refers to written law of any kind; for example, there are three kinds of mortgage in France, conventionnel, légal and judiciaire, respectively contractual, statutory and judicial; the statutory kind arises in certain cases whether the parties wish it or not, by virtue of article 2121 of the Civil Code. The sum up, therefore, there are three main uses for the word legal in 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be discussing the nuances of the word "legal" in the context of law, specifically in French and Spanish. It highlights the differences in connotation and meaning between "juridique" and "légal", and provides examples of how to translate them accurately. This suggests that the text is focused on a specific domain related to law and its applications.

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