Occurring before legal action or existing outside the framework of established law; preliminary to legal matters.
From 'ante-' (before) combined with 'legal,' describing situations or actions that precede or fall outside formal legal systems.
Antelegal disputes—disagreements between people that haven't yet become courtroom battles—represent the vast majority of human conflicts that resolve themselves peacefully.
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