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Cognizance :: Cognizance (n.) A form of defense in the action of replevin, by which the defendant insists that the goods were lawfully taken, as a distress, by defendant, acting as servant for another..

Illicit :: Illicit (a.) Not permitted or allowed; prohibited; unlawful; as, illicit trade; illicit intercourse; illicit pleasure..

Jail :: "Jail (n.) A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding..

Fornicate :: Fornicate (v. i.) To commit fornication; to have unlawful sexual intercourse.

Trespass :: Trespass (v.) An unlawful act committed with force and violence (vi et armis) on the person, property, or relative rights of another..

Lawful :: Lawful (a.) Constituted or authorized by law; rightful; as, the lawful owner of lands..

Prison :: Prison (n.) Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority..

Wife :: Wife (n.) The lawful consort of a man; a woman who is united to a man in wedlock; a woman who has a husband; a married woman; -- correlative of husband.

Duress :: Duress (n.) The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense..

Awful :: Awful (a.) Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster..

Incontinent :: Incontinent (a.) Not continent; uncontrolled; not restraining the passions or appetites, particularly the sexual appetite; indulging unlawful lust; unchaste; lewd..

Overawful :: Overawful (a.) Awful, or reverential, in an excessive degree..

Sterling :: Sterling (a.) Belonging to, or relating to, the standard British money of account, or the British coinage; as, a pound sterling; a shilling sterling; a penny sterling; -- now chiefly applied to the lawful money of England; but sterling cost, sterling value, are used..

Parasynaxis :: Parasynaxis (n.) An unlawful meeting.

Officer :: Officer (n.) One who holds an office; a person lawfully invested with an office, whether civil, military, or ecclesiastical; as, a church officer; a police officer; a staff officer..

Conspire :: Conspire (v. i.) To make an agreement, esp. a secret agreement, to do some act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; to plot together..

Purlieu :: Purlieu (n.) Originally, the ground near a royal forest, which, having been unlawfully added to the forest, was afterwards severed from it, and disafforested so as to remit to the former owners their rights..

Dreadful :: Dreadful (a.) Inspiring awe or reverence; awful.

Leveful :: Leveful (n.) Allowable; permissible; lawful.

Marketable :: Marketable (a.) Fit to be offered for sale in a market; such as may be justly and lawfully sold; as, dacaye/ provisions are not marketable..

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