unlaw
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English unlawe, unlaȝ, unlage, from Old English unlagu (“violation of law, illegality, injustice, lawlessness”), equivalent to un- (“lack or absence of”) + law.
Noun
unlaw (usually uncountable, plural unlaws)
- (obsolete) a crime, an illegal action
- Absence of law; lawlessness
- 2012, Read I. Myers, The Great Canadian Oligarchy: Flaws in Our Freedoms:
- In regard to abortion we are now lawless. The law of the land is no law at all; that is, unlaw reigns.
- 2012, Read I. Myers, The Great Canadian Oligarchy: Flaws in Our Freedoms:
- (obsolete) A fine exacted from a transgressor of the law.
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