unlaw

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Noun

unlaw (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) A crime, an illegal action.
2. Absence of law; lawlessness.
   • 2012, Read I. Myers, The Great Canadian Oligarchy: Flaws in Our Freedoms:

     In regard to abortion we are now lawless. The law of the land is no law at all; that is, unlaw reigns.

3. (obsolete) A fine exacted from a transgressor of the law.

Verb

unlaw (unlaws, present participle unlawing; past and past participle unlawed)

1. (transitive) To deprive of the authority or character of law.
2. (transitive) To put beyond the protection of the law; to outlaw.
3. (transitive, obsolete, Scotland, legal) To fine.

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