Unlawful
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Contrary to law; illegal. Unlawfully: illegally. It is not necessary, in an indictment which charges an offence in the precise words of the statute, to employ, in addition, the word unlawful, or any other word showing a wrongful intention. United States v. Thompson, 6 Mc Lean, 56. " Injuriously and wrongfully " is as good as " unlawfully," in an indictment. State V. Vermont, &o.
K. R. Co., 27 Vt. 103.