Contraband

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Contraband \Con"tra*band\, n. [It. contrabando; contra + bando
     ban, proclamation: cf. F. contrebande. See {Ban} an edict.]
     1. Illegal or prohibited traffic.
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              Persons the most bound in duty to prevent


              contraband, and the most interested in the seizures.
                                                    --Burke.
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     2. Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of
        which is forbidden.
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     3. A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was
        brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered
        contraband of war. [U.S.]
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     {Contraband of war}, that which, according to international
        law, cannot be supplied to a hostile belligerent except at
        the risk of seizure and condemnation by the aggrieved
        belligerent. --Wharton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Contraband \Con"tra*band\, a.
     Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as,
     contraband goods, or trade.
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           The contraband will always keep pace, in some measure,
           with the fair trade.                     --Burke.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Contraband \Con"tra*band\, v. t.
     1. To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle.
        [Obs.] --Johnson.
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     2. To declare prohibited; to forbid. [Obs.]
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              The law severly contrabands
              Our taking business of men's hands.   --Hudibras.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  contraband
       adj : distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no
             taxes" [syn: {bootleg}, {black}, {black-market}, {smuggled}]
       n : goods whose importation or exportation or possession is
           prohibited by law

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  116 Moby Thesaurus words for "contraband":
     Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, actionable,
     against the law, anarchic, anarchistic, anomic, ban, banned,
     barred, black-market, bootleg, bootleg liquor, chargeable,
     cigarette smuggling, cigarettes, contrabandage, contrary to law,
     criminal, denial, disallowance, disapproved, dope, dope smuggling,
     drugs, embargo, excluded, exclusion, felonious, flawed, forbade,
     forbid, forbiddance, forbidden, forbidden fruit, forbidding,
     gunrunning, hot, hot goods, illegal, illegitimate, illicit,
     impermissible, index, index expurgatorius,
     index librorum prohibitorum, inhibition, injunction, interdict,
     interdiction, interdictum, irregular, jewel smuggling, jewels,
     justiciable, law, lawless, narcotics, narcotics smuggling, no-no,
     nonconstitutional, nonlegal, nonlicit, nonpermissible,
     not permitted, off limits, out of bounds, outlaw, outlawed,
     preclusion, prevention, prohibited, prohibition,
     prohibitory injunction, proscribed, proscription, punishable,
     refusal, rejection, repression, restrictive covenants, ruled out,
     ruling out, rumrunning, run, shut out, smuggled goods, smuggling,
     statute, stolen goods, sumptuary laws, suppression, taboo, tabooed,
     triable, unallowed, unauthorized, unconstitutional, under the ban,
     under-the-counter, under-the-table, unlawful, unlicensed,
     unofficial, unpermissible, unsanctioned, unstatutory, untouchable,
     unwarrantable, unwarranted, verboten, vetoed, wrongful, zoning,
     zoning laws
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  CONTRABAND, mar. law. Its most extensive sense, means all commerce which is 
  carried on contrary to the laws of the state. This term is also used to 
  designate all kinds of merchandise which are used, or transported, against 
  the interdictions published by a ban or solemn cry. 
       2. The term is usually applied to that unlawful commerce which is so 
  carried on in time of war. Merlin, Repert. h.t. Commodities particularly 
  useful in war are contraband as arms, ammunition, horses, timber for ship 
  building, and every kind of naval stores. When articles come into use as 
  implements of war, which were before innocent, they may be declared to be 
  contraband. The greatest difficulty to decide what is contraband seems to 
  have occurred in the instance of provisions, which have not been held to be 
  universally contraband, though Vattel admits that they become so on certain 
  occasions, when there is an expectation of reducing an enemy by famine. 
       3. In modern times one of the principal criteria adopted by the courts 
  for the decision of the question, whether any particular cargo of provisions 
  be confiscable as contraband, is to examine whether those provisions be in a 
  rude or manufactured state; for all articles, in such examinations, are 
  treated with greater indulgence in their natural condition than when wrought 
  tip for the convenience of the enemy's immediate use. Iron, unwrought, is 
  therefore treated with indulgence, though anchors, and other instruments 
  fabricated out of it, are directly contraband. 1 Rob. Rep. 1 89. See Vattel, 
  b. 3, c. 7 Chitty's L. of Nat. 120; Marsh. Ins. 78; 2 Bro. Civ., Law, 311; 1 
  Kent. Com. 135; 3 Id. 215. 
       4. Contraband of war, is the act by which, in times of war, a neutral 
  vessel introduces, or attempts to introduce into the territory of, one of 
  the belligerent parties, arms, ammunition, or other effects intended for, or 
  which may serve, hostile operations. Merlin, Repert. h.t. 1 Kent, Com. 135; 
  Mann. Comm. B. 3, c. 7; 6 Mass. 102; 1 Wheat. 382; 1 Cowen, 56 John. Cas. 
  77, 120.