legal limit
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The district letter stated that, even if Carvalho had filled out disclosure forms properly, the amounts he allegedly accepted in gifts far exceeded the legal limit, which the letter noted was $590 in 2024.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
The DFC operates under a legal limit on how much financial risk it can take on at any given time.
From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026
A necklace sold on Shein had 8,500 times the legal limit of cadmium, a toxic metal, they found.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
This would take its total capital borrowing to about £2.7bn - close to its legal limit of £3.1bn.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2025
But there was a legal limit to how much time one could be kept in solitary.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
