Defn: A low public house; especially, a place where spirits and other excisable liquors are illegally and privately sold.
He had taken one revolutionary step already; he was driven on to another, and he offered himself illegally to the Comitia for re-election.
Will you then," asked Caesar, "support the law if it be illegally opposed?
There were laws for the protection of the subject from violence, public or private; and laws disabling persons who had laid hands illegally on Roman citizens from holding office in the Commonwealth.
In 1799 Lord Carlisle was persuaded by Hanson to become Byron's guardian, in order to facilitate legal proceedings for the recovery of the Rochdale property, illegally sold by William, fifth Lord Byron.
Footnote 2: The Rochdale property of the Byron family had been illegally sold by William, fifth Lord Byron.
He had the advantage of a singular address, being for the moment in the prison of Seville, where he had been illegally thrown, after a quarrel with the Alcalde over the matter of a passport.
For a case of tollillegally levied on victuals see Rep.
The compensation money which the late mayors had claimed was altogether refused; and they were ordered to repay to the town treasury the £458 illegally spent without consent of the community.
But if I state the fact now, after having been secretly married eight years, during which I have illegally retained the property, I shall stamp myself a cheat.
How would it benefit the sick child if I denounced myself and was compelled to give up the whole of my private fortune to compensate my first husband's relatives for what I have spent illegally since my second marriage?
In that case you must not only restore the property, but also the interest you have illegally appropriated for nine years, which will swallow your little private property and rob you of your sole means of support.
After her death her husband, Maximilian, illegally assumed the government as guardian of his son.
The Bishop of Arras, a Burgundian by birth, had already been illegally forced upon the Flemings; and now the Count of Feria, a Castilian, was to receive a seat and voice in the council of state.
Dividends illegally declared and paid, not based on profits may be recovered either by the corporation or by its representative for the benefit of creditors.
Baker would steal land without compunction; Welton would take land illegally without thought of the illegality, only because everybody else did it the same way.
Men have all summer pastured illegally thousands of head of sheep undiscovered, in spite of the fact that rangers and soldiers were out looking for them.
Seven of the canvassers determined to reject and destroy the ballots alleged to have been illegally returned.
Our laws for the protection of the rights and liberty of free yellow and black people, must be exceedingly defective, or there could not at this moment be thousands of them illegally held in slavery.
Seeing his friends thus illegally and brutally dealt with aroused the righteous indignation of Elder Taylor.
He affected to reconstitute the legislative body which he had illegally destroyed, and he sent into it a quantity of that noxious scum which, in the troubled waters of revolution, is frequently cast up to the surface of society.
The remains of young Manlius were collected into a dreary pile, and the trophies he had illegally won were added as the materials for a bonfire.
Owing to this circumstance, it is supposed, he lost his third tribunate, though he had most votes, for it is said that his colleagues acted illegally and fraudulently in the proclamation and return.
Remittances from Mongolians working abroad both legally and illegally are sizeable, and money laundering is a growing concern.
Illegally imported Africans to be either freed, apprenticed, or returned to Africa.
Nearly all of these meagre appropriations went toward reimbursing Southern plantation owners for the care and support of illegally imported Africans, and the rest to the maintenance of the African agency.
Informers are to receive one-tenth of the net proceeds from the sale of illegally imported Africans, "Provided, nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to extend farther back than the year 1817.
The profit from the sale of illegally imported Negroes was declared to be the only sufficient "inducement to give information of their importation.
The First Question: How shall illegally imported Africans be disposed of?
Most of the Southern States rather tardily passed the necessary supplementary acts disposing of illegally imported Africans.
Every slave illegally imported after 1808 shall be sold for the use of the State.
I was treacherously and illegally arrested, at the request of those who wish to rule the masses; I was sentenced to death, and over twenty times they have tried to put an end to my life.
Hence, the unfortunate Cubans being illegally prosecuted and thrown into exile or executed by military commissions in times of peace.
He had been nominated Captain-general of the people, but had illegally usurped the office of Podesta in addition, and fixed his residence in the palace of the Signory, where he had no right to dwell.
Should the Podesta fail to demolish buildings (churches always excepted) in which conventicles or meetings had been illegally held, he was to enforce the said demolition, and impose a fine of 500 lire on the Podesta.
Also possession was resumed of many others in the Mugello, which had been illegally usurped by the said Counts Guidi, the Ubaldini, and other powerful lords.
Publius Clodius, who illegally of a patrician became a plebeian, was declared tribune of the people, as he had promised to do all things according to their pleasure, on condition he might banish Cicero.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "illegally" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
