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What does unlawful mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word unlawful? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Prohibited; not permitted by law (either civil or criminal law; see illegal).
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It is better to speak of an unlawful and dangerous act carrying with it an appreciable risk of serious injury.
Should any unlawful act come to our knowledge we shall immediately delete the information concerned from our website.
The coroner accordingly left that verdict to the jury, and the jury returned a unanimous verdict of unlawful killing.
He was accused of having unlawful sexual intercourse with the girl as she was under the age of consent at the time.
Despite the attempts to prevent unlawful conventicles, the Baptists, Quakers, and other radicals were not to be uprooted.
There is no requirement that the act of greater evil should be unlawful, nor that it take place within the jurisdiction.

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