n
The act of declining to vote on a particular issue.
n
(somewhat derogatory) A policy that prohibits building anything that could disturb those who already reside in an area.
adj
Having been subject to banishment; kicked out and forbidden from returning; forbidden and prohibited.
adj
Forbidden; not allowed.
adj
(rare) Involving or characterized by a violation of law, of legal rights, or of other rules governing conduct.
n
A form of social protest, involving the active but non-violent refusal to obey certain laws, demands, or commands of an established authority, because they are considered to be morally wrong or detrimental.
adv
In an illicit way, i.e. not permitted by the law or regulations.
adj
Prohibited from being traded.
adj
Against the law; forbidden by law.
adj
(law, postpositive) Without authority or right (to do something).
n
(law, Scotland) Resistance to an officer in the execution of law.
n
One who denies or forbids something.
n
Repudiation of self or other.
v
(UK, law, historical) to overrule a colonial legislation by the sovereign-in-privy council
n
(law) The principle that a child cannot be held legally responsible for their actions, and so cannot be convicted of a criminal offence.
n
An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; — usually followed by to or against.
adj
(law, of a punishment) Carried out without legal authority.
adj
Taboo, or forbidden, under the fady system.
n
(archaic) The act of forbidding something.
n
An act of forbidding, prohibition; an official edict against something.
adj
Not allowed; specifically disallowed.
adv
In a forbidden or unlawful manner.
v
(immigration law, of a claim for legalization) To be denied by an INS agent without filing because the officer believes the application invalid at face value.
n
(obsolete) An illegal act or technique.
n
(law) a number that represents information which is illegal to possess, utter or propagate. Any information that can be represented in binary format is, ipso facto, representable as a number, and therefore if the information itself is illegal in some way, the pure number itself may be called illegal.
adj
Archaic spelling of illegal. [Contrary to or forbidden by law, especially criminal law.]
adj
(informal) illegitimate
adj
Not in accordance with the law.
n
A banned or unlawful item.
adv
(chiefly law) In a way or to an extent that is not permissible.
v
(UK, law, historical, transitive) To clear of outlawry or attainder; to place under the protection of the law
adj
Prohibited or forbidden.
adj
Initialism of illegal, underreported and unregulated. [Contrary to or forbidden by law, especially criminal law.]
n
One who flouts the law or conventional wisdom; one who ignores rules or logic to behave according to his or her own standards.
adj
Prohibited by law; unlawful, illegal.
n
(law) The state of having done something illegal without an intention of breaking the law.
n
(law) An action that is not inherently evil, but is nevertheless illegal only because prohibited, as opposed to malum in se. A malum prohibitum offense is something that is wrong only because a statute makes it so, or by consensus that society agrees to prohibit the act, and is typically regulatory in nature and often result in no direct injury or danger to the person, entity, or property but only merely create the danger or probability of it which the statute attempts to minimize. Used to develop consensual crimes.
n
(law) A test of criminal insanity by which "it must be clearly proved that, at the time of committing the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong".
v
Used to indicate that something is forbidden.
n
(chiefly attributive) That which is not law.
adj
(law) Not lawful; unlawful.
n
The act of opting out of something.
adj
Having the attributes of or pertaining to outlaws.
adj
Characterized by lawless state actions, as in a prerogative state.
adj
Exceeding the limits of law.
v
(intransitive) To resist or become defiant toward an authority.
n
Anyone refusing to submit to authority or regulation.
n
One who refuses something.
n
(law) Any law that makes a prior legal act illegal, or increases the penalty for a prior illegal act.
n
(informal) An official refusal to serve in public office or similar; a Shermanesque statement.
n
The departure from the Christian faith or some branch of it.
adj
Alternative spelling of tabooed [Forbidden; prohibited.]
n
An unenforceable law which awaits conditions that allow its enforcement to come to pass and then automatically comes active on the books.
n
(law, politics) A legal right which is not explicitly stated, coded, written in laws or constitutions. These rights may be inferred to exist from other rights, or inferred from traditions that have been canonized in law court rulings.
n
(obsolete) A crime, an illegal action.
adj
(law) Prohibited; not permitted by law (either civil or criminal law; see illegal).
n
(US, law) The act of retaining possession of property without legal right.
adj
(obsolete) Not according to law; illegal.
n
Obsolete form of outlawry. [(law, historical) A declaration that an individual cannot benefit from the protection of law in a jurisdiction.]
adj
Forbidden, prohibited.
n
(obsolete, law) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
n
(US, law) A search of someone's body or property conducted by law enforcement personnel without the issuance of a search warrant.
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