VI. WORDS RELATING TO THE SENTIMENT AND MORAL POWERS
IV. MORAL AFFECTIONS
5. Institutions
[Absence or violation of law.] Illegality.[Antonyms: legality.]
[Nouns] lawlessness; illicitness; breach of law, violation of law; disobedience [more]; unconformity [more].
arbitrariness; antinomy, violence, brute force, despotism, outlawry.
mob law, lynch law, club law, Lydford law, martial law, drumhead law; coup d'etat; le droit du plus fort; argumentum baculinum.
illegality, informality, unlawfulness, illegitimacy, bar sinister.
trover and conversion; smuggling, poaching; simony.
[Verbs] offend against the law; violate the law; set the law at defiance, ride roughshod over, drive a coach and six through a statute; make the law a dead letter, take the law into one's own hands.
smuggle, run, poach.
[Adjectives] illegal, prohibited [more]; unlawful, illegitimate; not allowed, illicit, contraband, actionable.
unchartered, unconstitutional; unwarranted, unwarrantable; unauthorized; informal, unofficial; injudicial, extrajudicial.
lawless, arbitrary; despotic, despotical; summary, irresponsible; unanswerable, unaccountable.
null and void; a dead letter.
