Unlawful

4 definitions found

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

  Unlawful \Un*law"ful\, a.
     Not lawful; contrary to law. -- {Un*law"ful*ly}, adv. --
     {Un*law"ful*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Unlawful assembly}. (Law) See under {Assembly}.


        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unlawful
       adj 1: not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention;
              "an unconventional marriage"; "improper banking
              practices" [syn: {improper}, {unconventional}]
       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: {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}]

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

  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
  
  

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

  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.