unlawful
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
unlawful
adj 1: not conforming to legality, moral law, or social
convention; "an unconventional marriage"; "improper
banking practices" [syn: {improper}, {unconventional},
{unlawful}]
2: contrary to or prohibited by or defiant of law; "unlawful
measures"; "unlawful money"; "unlawful hunters" [ant:
{lawful}]
3: not morally right or permissible; "unlawful love"
4: having no legally established claim; "the wrongful heir to
the throne" [syn: {unlawful}, {wrongful}]
5: contrary to or forbidden by law; "an illegitimate seizure of
power"; "illicit trade"; "an outlaw strike"; "unlawful
measures" [syn: {illegitimate}, {illicit}, {outlaw(a)},
{outlawed}, {unlawful}]
from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
UNLAWFUL. That which is contrary to law.
2. There are two kinds of contracts which are unlawful; those which are
void, and those which are not. When the law expressly prohibits the
transaction in respect of which the agreement is entered into and declares
it to be void, it is absolutely so. 3 Binn. R. 533. But when it is merely
prohibited, without being made void, although unlawful, it is not void. 12
Serg. & Rawle, 237; Chitty, Contr. 230; 23 Amer. Jur. 1 to 23; 1 Mod. 35; 8
East, R. 236, 237; 3 Taunt. R. 244; Hob. 14. Vide Condition; Void.
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
99 Moby Thesaurus words for "unlawful":
aberrant, abnormal, abominable, actionable, against the law,
anarchic, anarchistic, anomic, atrocious, banned, barred,
black-market, bootleg, chargeable, contraband, contrary to law,
criminal, delinquent, deviant, disgraceful, evil, exceptionable,
felonious, flawed, forbade, forbid, forbidden, hardly the thing,
ignominious, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, impermissible,
improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, infamous,
iniquitous, interdicted, intolerable, irregular, justiciable,
lawless, nefarious, nonconstitutional, nonlegal, nonlicit,
nonpermissible, not done, not permitted, not the thing,
objectionable, off limits, off-base, off-color, out of bounds,
out-of-line, outlaw, outlawed, prohibited, proscribed, punishable,
ruled out, sacrilegious, scandalous, shameful, shameless, sinful,
taboo, tabooed, terrible, triable, unallowed, unauthorized,
unconstitutional, under the ban, under the table,
under-the-counter, under-the-table, undue, unfit, unfitting,
unlicensed, unofficial, unpermissible, unrighteous, unsanctioned,
unseemly, unstatutory, unsuitable, untouchable, unwarrantable,
unwarranted, verboten, vetoed, wicked, wrong, wrongful
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