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     #963.  Legality. —­ N. legality; legitimacy, legitimateness.
     legislature; law, code, corpus juris[Lat], constitution,
pandect[obs3], charter, enactment, statute, rule; canon &c. (precept) 697; ordinance, institution, regulation; bylaw, byelaw; decree &c. (order) 741; ordonnance[obs3]; standing order; plebiscite &c. (choice) 609.
     legal process; form, formula, formality; rite, arm of the law; habeas
corpus; fieri facias[Lat].
     [Science of law] jurisprudence, nomology[obs3]; legislation,
codification.
     equity, common law; lex[Lat], lex nonscripta[Lat][obs3]; law of
nations, droit des gens[Fr], international law, jus gentium[Lat]; jus civile[Lat]; civil law, canon law, crown law, criminal law, statute law, ecclesiastical law, administrative law; lex mercatoria[Lat].
     constitutionalism, constitutionality; justice &c. 922.
     [institution for deciding questions of law] court, tribunal &c. 966.
     [person who presides at a court or tribunal] judge &c. 967.
     [specialist in questions of law] lawyer, attorney, legal counsel &c.
968. 
     V. legalize; enact, ordain; decree &c. (order) 741; pass a law, enact
a regulation; legislate; codify, formulate; regulate. 
     Adj. legal, legitimate; according to law; vested, constitutional,
chartered, legalized; lawful &c. (permitted) 760; statutable[obs3], statutory; legislatorial, legislative; regulatory, regulated. 
     Adv. legally &c. adj.; in the eye of the law; de jure[Lat]. 
     Phr. ignorantia legis neminem excusat[Latin:  ignorance of the law is
no excuse]; “where law ends tyranny begins” [Earl of Chatham].

     #964. [Absence or violation of law.] Illegality. —­ N. lawlessness;
illicitness; breach of law, violation of law, infraction of the law; disobedience &c. 742; unconformity &c. 83.
     arbitrariness &c. adj.; antinomy, violence, brute force, despotism,
outlawry.
     mob law, lynch law, club law, Lydford law, martial law, drumhead law;
coup d’etat[Fr]; le droit du plus fort[Fr]; argumentum baculinum[obs3][Lat].
     illegality, informality, unlawfulness, illegitimacy, bar sinister.
     trover and conversion[Law]; smuggling, poaching; simony.
     [person who violates the law] outlaw, bad man &c. 949.
     v. offend against the law; violate the law, infringe the law, break
the law; set the law at defiance, ride roughshod over, drive a coach and six through a statute; ignore the law, make the law a dead letter, take the law into one’s own hands.
     smuggle, run, poach. 
     Adj. illegal[contrary to law], unlawful, illegitimate; not allowed,
prohibited &c. 761; illicit, contraband; actionable.
     unwarranted, unwarrantable; unauthorized; informal, unofficial;
injudicial[obs3], extrajudicial.
     lawless, arbitrary; despotic, despotical[obs3]; corrupt, summary,
irresponsible; unanswerable, unaccountable.
     [of invalid or expired law] expired, invalid; unchartered,
unconstitutional; null and void; a dead letter.
     [in absence of law] lawless, unregulated
     Adv. illegally &c. adj.; with a high hand, in violation of law.