adj
(obsolete) That has been cast off or rejected.
n
(law) Any action by a government official by which that official renders decisions for a clearly improper purpose.
n
(theology) Sin committed by an individual, in contradistinction to original sin.
n
(law) The unjust assumption of rights or privilege.
n
The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.
n
The act of placing onto a blacklist.
adj
(Anglo-Saxon England, law, of a crime) Too grievous to be atoned for by the payment of a bōt or bōte; irredeemable, unpardonable.
n
(law) A failure to meet an obligation under the terms of a contract.
n
(obsolete) An unlawful agreement or contract.
n
(law) The act of abstaining from prosecution for some consideration itself punishable by fine and imprisonment.
v
(transitive) To act contrary to an order; to fail to conform to a regulation or obligation.
n
The act of contravening a rule, regulation, or law, or of not fulfilling an obligation, promise, or agreement.
n
(law) Any of various sexual deviations that, at one time or another, have been considered to be so unnatural as to be illegal.
adj
Guilty of breaking the law.
n
(law) Failure to use reasonable care, and thus put someone at risk of injury or death.
n
(law) The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury.
n
Obsolete form of defeasance. [(now rare) Destruction, defeat, overthrow.]
n
(law) A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.
adj
Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense
n
The act of one who denies something; a denial.
n
(law) The act of derogating; the temporary or partial nullification of a law.
v
(intransitive) To fail to conform or correspond with.
adj
Strongly disowned or denied.
n
The provision of a disincentive.
n
The withdrawal of an invitation.
n
(obsolete) Freedom from confinement; liberty.
n
(insurance) Risks that are produced by a non-human source and are beyond human control. They are unexpected but happen regularly enough in a general population to be broadly predictable. Good examples of external risks are natural disasters such as earthquakes and volcanoes.
adj
Of, relating to, or typical of extortion; extortionate.
n
(law, obsolete except in set phrases) A wrongful or criminal deed.
n
(rare) The person who declines such an offer.
n
(law, uncountable) A cause of action arising under the common law where a person is portrayed in a way which, while not technically false, is misleading and likely to cause embarrassment to that person.
n
(law) A person who has been tried and convicted of a felony.
n
The act by which something is flouted; violation of a law.
v
(law, transitive) To make such a ruling against (an indictment).
n
A violation or breach, as of a law.
n
(India, dated, Britain military slang) A formal refusal.
n
The commission of a criminal act, the violation or breaking of a law.
n
(law) The opportunity to withdraw from an ongoing process of committing oneself to an obligation, before such commitment is finalized; specifically, the opportunity to abstain from committing an intended crime before it is too late.
n
(law) a breach of contract sufficiently serious to destroy the contract
n
One who or that which misclassifies.
n
One who commits misdemeanors
n
(law) An actual or alleged wrong that arises from an action; often, the wrongful use of legal authority.
n
The violation of an oath; perjury.
n
(archaic) The act of obtesting; supplication; protestation.
n
The state of being an outlaw; lawlessness.
adj
Associated with or profiting from crime without actually being illegal.
n
(law) accident or casus, as distinguished from dolus and culpa, and hence relieving one from the duty of performing an obligation
n
(law) The legally compensable destruction of the value of property through the failure of a life tenant to maintain the property to the point where it falls into disrepair.
adj
At risk of falling into delinquency.
adj
(now rare, poetic) Having admitted defeat and surrendered; defeated.
v
To refuse a romantic advance.
adj
At fault; failing to fulfill responsibility, duty, or obligations.
n
A disloyal person who betrays or deserts a cause, religion, political party, friend, etc.
n
(obsolete, rare) One not of noble blood; a plebeian; a roturier.
n
The act by which something is shunned; avoidance.
n
One who commits a status offense; especially a juvenile delinquent taken into state care for uncontrollable behavior at home.
adj
(US, law) below the level of a felony; relating to a misdemeanor
n
One who imposes a taboo.
n
A violation of a law, duty or commandment.
v
(law) To enter someone else's property illegally.
adj
(of a rule or law) Having been broken or ignored, especially in a flagrant manner.
n
A person who defaults on an obligation, especially a small one.
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