illegality
noun
1 illegality
Unlawfulness by virtue of violating some legal statute.
Roget 925:
undueness
etc.
adj.;
malum prohibitum [Lat.];
impropriety;
illegality
etc.
964.
falseness
etc.
adj.;
emptiness of title,
invalidity of title;
illegitimacy.
loss of right,
disfranchisement,
forfeiture.
usurpation,
tort,
violation,
breach,
encroachment,
presumption,
assumption,
seizure;
stretch,
exaction,
imposition,
lion's share.
usurper,
pretender.
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Roget 964:
lawlessness;
illicitness;
breach of law,
violation of law,
infraction of the law;
disobedience
etc.
742;
unconformity
etc.
83.
arbitrariness
etc.
adj.;
antinomy,
violence,
brute force,
despotism,
outlawry.
mob law,
lynch law,
club law,
Lydford law,
martial law,
drumhead law;
coup d'etat [Fr.];
le droit du plus fort [Fr.];
argumentum baculinum [Lat.].
illegality,
informality,
unlawfulness,
illegitimacy,
bar sinister.
trover and conversion [Law];
smuggling,
poaching;
simony.
[person who violates the law]
outlaw,
bad man
etc.
949.
v..
offend against the law;
violate the law,
infringe the law,
break the law;
set the law at defiance,
ride roughshod over,
drive a coach and six through a statute;
ignore the law,
make the law a dead letter,
take the law into one's own hands.
smuggle,
run,
poach.
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Dutch: onwettigheid, illegaliteit
Polish: bezprawność, nielegalność
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