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legal effected adj. Of a drinker: rights altered by a defined course of events, chiefly the arrival of a taxi. Soundra became legal effected when the taxi conferred immediate rights over the back seat. legal entitied adj. Of a drinker who has become, for present purposes, a person with contracts, debts and one outstanding tab. Jamara was legal entitied and attempted to sue the chair for inadequate support. legal fictioned adj. Describing a drinker who accepts an untrue assumption because it permits another round to proceed. Sansa was legal fictioned, assuming the closing time applied only to less committed customers. legal gapped adj. A drinker who discovers that no recognised rule covers the question of ordering chips twice. Novell was legal gapped, finding no authority on whether soup counted as a main course. legal gendered adj. A drinker so far gone that the official classification of the toilet becomes a matter of urgent personal jurisprudence. legal heighted adj. The state of being drunk and measuring the bar stool for a residence underneath. Prenell was legal heighted and inspected the space beneath the table for planning compliance. legal heired adj. The condition of a drinker who has inherited the responsibility for finishing everyone else's leftovers. legal highed adj. The drunkenness of one who mistakes an ordinary lager for a newly regulated substance. Amarachi got legal highed and described the house bitter as an important legal development. legal holded adj. Reduced by drink to preserving every receipt, napkin and unfinished thought for anticipated litigation. legal holidayed adj. Softened by drink into treating an ordinary Tuesday as a public occasion requiring a roast dinner. legal instrumented adj. Sharpened by drink into a formal written document recording the obligation to buy chips. legal interested adj. Emboldened by drink to calculate what is owed, to whom, and at what rate, on a basis no sober court would recognise. Starcia came home legal interested, itemising the evening's rounds in a currency she had invented on the bus. legal named adj. Too drunk to remember which name appears on the birth certificate, and requiring witnesses to settle it. Joye became legal named and required witnesses to determine which appellation appeared upon the birth certificate. legal noticed adj. Sufficiently drunk to treat every announcement as binding legislation, and to brief the table accordingly. Veda got legal noticed and informed the booth that nobody could leave before dessert. legal padded adj. Having drunk enough to fill several ruled pages with complaints, each requiring a margin for witnesses. legal personned adj. Having drunk more than one body can sensibly absorb, and behaving as though the table were a corporation. Ryliee got legal personned and appointed the waiter secretary of the group.