Unlawfully

3 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]:

  unlawfully
       adv : not conforming to the law; "they were unlawfully married"
             [ant: {legally}]

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

  UNLAWFULLY, pleadings. This word is frequently used in indictments in the 
  description of the offence; it is necessary when the crime did not exist at 
  common law, and when a statute, in describing an offence which it creates, 
  uses the word, 1 Moody, Cr. Cas. 339; but it is unnecessary whenever the 
  crime existed at common law, and is manifestly illegal. 1 Chitty, Crim. Law, 
  *241; Hawk. B. 2, c. 95, s. 96; 2 Roll. Ab. 82; Bac. Abr. Indictment, G 1 
  Cro. C. C. 38, 43.