English edit

Noun edit

legalistics (uncountable)

  1. The technical legal aspects of a topic or issue.
    • 1976 December 11, Ken Withers, “SWP In Retrospect”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 10:
      Marxists have an approach to the questions of human sexuality that differs from the libertarians, social democrats, and others. They see it not as a question of legalistics, but as a question of society. Marxists have a duty to point out that gay liberation is impossible in present-day society, where the heterosexual role-model is so necessary to the maintainance [sic] of capitalism, the oppression of women, the private ownership of children.