Legal Definition and Related Resources of Illegal
Meaning of Illegal
Forbidden by law; contrary to law; unlawful .
Illegal Alternative Definition
Contrary to law. Not ssTionymous with unlawful (q. v.).
Synonyms of Illegal
adjective
- actionable
- against the law
- banned
- contrary to law
- criminal
- exceeding the law
- felonious
- forbidden
- illegitimate
- illicit
- impermissible
- improper
- inlicitus
- invalid
- lawless
- not according to law
- not allowed
- not approved
- not authorized by law
- not covered by law
- not permitted
- not valid
- outlawed
- outside the law
- prohibited
- prohibited by law
- proscribed
- punishable
- quod contra leges Jit
- unauthorized
- unchartered
- unconstitutional
- unjustified
- unlawful
- unsanctioned
- unwarrantable
- unwarranted
- vetitus
- without authority
- wrongful
- Associated Concepts: illegal acts
- illegal business
- illegal combination
- illegal contract
- illegal detention
- illegal discrimination
- illegal force
- illegal operation
- illegal picketing
- illegal possession
- illegal practice
- illegal purpose
- illegal restraint
- illegal sale
- illegal search and seizure
- illegal statute
- illegal taking
- illegal tax
- illegal trade
- illegal transaction
- illegal use
- mala in se
- mala prohibita
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Crime: illegal
Grammar
This term is an adjetive.
Etimology of Illegal
(You may find illegal at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms).
1630s, from French illégal (14c.) or directly from Medieval Latin illegalis, from assimilated form of in- “not, opposite of” (see in- (1)) + Latin legalis (see legal). Term illegal immigrant first recorded 1892 in American English (illegal immigration is from 1887); used in British English in 1940s in reference to the Jewish movement to Palestine.
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- Legal
- Error
- Erroneous
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