Transaction in Own Shares

Legal & General Group PLC
27 July 2007




Legal & General Group Plc

Purchase of Own Shares


Legal & General Group Plc announces that on 27 July 2007 it purchased for
cancellation 5,583,357 ordinary shares of 2.5p.The highest price paid was
139.55p per share and the lowest price paid was 135.3p per share.


A. D Fairhurst
Deputy Group Secretary
27 July 2007




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