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Endless damage to legal term

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I believe the answer is:

de facto

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'endless' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'damage to legal term' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'to' is present in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for de facto that I've seen before include "Actual, not legal (situation)" , "actually" , "In practice" , "In fact (Latin)" , "In reality, actual" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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