[Python] How to put the legend outside the plot

I have a series of 20 plots (not subplots) to be made in a single figure. I want the legend to be outside of the box. At the same time, I do not want to change the axes, as the size of the figure gets reduced.

1. I want to keep the legend box outside the plot area (I want the legend to be outside at the right side of the plot area).
2. Is there a way to reduce the font size of the text inside the legend box, so that the size of the legend box will be small?

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