legal status vs status

legal status and status both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
legal status	Yes	No	No	No
status	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, status is a hypernym of legal status; that is, status is a word with a broader meaning than legal status:

legal status: a status defined by law
status: the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society

Other hypernyms of legal status include position.

legal status (noun)	status (noun)
a status defined by law	the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
	a state at a particular time