Transaction in Own Shares

Legal & General Group PLC
01 February 2008



Legal & General Group Plc

Transaction in Own Shares


Legal & General Group Plc announces that on 1 February 2008 it purchased for
cancellation 6,281,216 Ordinary shares of 2.5p each through Lehman Brothers.
The highest price paid was 132.5p per share and the lowest price paid was 129.8p
per share.


Rossella Pagano
Assistant Company Secretary
1 February 2008


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