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Definition of Illegality
1. Noun. Unlawfulness by virtue of violating some legal statute.
Specialized synonyms: Lawlessness, Outlawry, Infection
Derivative terms: Illegal
Antonyms: Legality
Definition of Illegality
1. n. The quality or condition of being illegal; unlawfulness; as, the illegality of trespass or of false imprisonment; also, an illegal act.
Definition of Illegality
1. Noun. (legal) : the state of being illegal ¹
2. Noun. (legal) (''uncountable''): a defense to the validity of a contract because it was in violation of the law ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Illegality
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Illegality
Literary usage of Illegality
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"Under the facts as thus considered, the affidavit of illegality was properly ...
The defendant in error filed an affidavit oC illegality to the further ..."
2. The Law of Contracts: In a Course of Lectures Delivered at the Law Institute by John William Smith, Jelinger Cookson Symons (1847)
"... illegality, because I do not remember any decided case arising upon a question
as to illegality at common law which would aptly illustrate it. ..."
3. Principles of the English Law of Contract and of Agency in Its Relation to by William Reynell Anson (1906)
"EFFECT OF illegality UPON CONTRACTS IN WHICH IT EXISTS 260. What is the effect
of illegality? The effect of illegality upon the validity of contracts in ..."
4. Digest of the Law of Evidence on the Trial of Actions at Nisi Prius by Maurice Powell, Henry Roscoe (1891)
"Where fraud or illegality, &c., is admitted or proved, the plaintiff must prove
that value has been given, in good faith and without notice of the fraud. ..."
5. A Treatise on Equity Jurisprudence: As Administered in the United States of by John Norton Pomeroy (1882)
"It should be observed that the defense of illegality is allowed from motives of
public policy rather than from a regard for tho interests of the objecting ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bank-notes and by John Barnard Byles, Maurice Barnard Byles, Walter John Barnard Byles (1899)
"illegality of consideration when judgment recovered. illegality of part of the
consideration. Renewal of bill given on illegal consideration. ..."
7. Rights, Remedies, and Practice, at Law, in Equity, and Under the Codes: A by John Davison Lawson (1890)
"Effect of illegality on Agreement. — The effect of illegality in the matter or
purpose of au agreement is to render the agreement wholly void of legal ..."
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