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unlawful

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Dovgan is only one of many cases of unlawful detention, according to Human Rights Watch Senior Research Tanya Lokshina.

Among these are obscenity, defamation, fighting words, express incitement to unlawful conduct, and threats.

We were then told we were all being arrested for ‘unlawful protesting.’

He also revealed his view that the operation itself had been unlawful: it was “not legal because no finding.”

The military insists that civilian deaths are investigated whenever allegations of unlawful killing are made.

A lease for an unlawful purpose is void, for example, for the sale of spirituous liquors contrary to law.

No performance on either side can give the unlawful contract any validity, or be the foundation of any right of action upon it.

Of course, they had a right to defend their homes and families against unlawful invaders.

Charges of unlawful carnal knowledge or indecent assault arise, for the most part, from complaints made by females.

They resented most of all one of his decrees which made it unlawful for persons not in his service to carry arms in time of peace.

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On this page you'll find 55 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to unlawful, such as: illegal, illegitimate, illicit, improper, lawless, and nefarious.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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