合法(性)成为合法的特征或事实 The quality or fact of being legitimate.
她甚至去租了一个市内办公处,那地方她根本不用,只是为了有一个“合法的”企业地址而已。 She went so far as to rent down town office space, which she never used in order to have a "legitimate" business address.
该委员会的建立不合规定,因而没有合法的权力。 The committee had been improperly constituted, and therefore had no legal power.