ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

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 [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 † ,
extrajudicial.
lawless, arbitrary; despotic, despotical † ; 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.
965. Jurisdiction [Executive.] -- N. jurisdiction, judicature, administration of justice,
soc; executive, commission of the peace; magistracy &c (authority) 737.
judge &c 967; tribunal &c 966; municipality, corporation, bailiwick, shrievalty
[Brit.]; lord lieutenant, sheriff, shire reeve, shrieve † , constable; selectman; police, police
force, the fuzz [Sarc.]; constabulary, bumbledom † , gendarmerie [Fr.].
officer, bailiff, tipstaff, bum-bailiff, catchpoll, beadle; policeman, cop [Coll.], police
constable, police sergeant; sbirro † , alguazil † , gendarme, kavass † , lictor † , mace bearer,
huissier [Fr.], bedel † ; tithingman † .
press gang; exciseman † , gauger, gager † , customhouse officer, douanier [Fr.].
coroner, edile † , aedile † , portreeve † , paritor † ; posse comitatus [Lat.].
bureau, cutcherry † , department, secretariat.
[extension of jurisdiction] long arm of the law, extradition.
V. judge, sit in judgment; extradite.
Adj. executive, administrative, municipal; inquisitorial, causidical † ; judicatory † ,
judiciary, judicial; juridical.
Adv. coram judice [Lat.].
966. Tribunal -- N. tribunal, court, board, bench, judicatory † ; court of justice, court of
law, court of arbitration, administrative court; inquisition; guild.
justice seat; judgment seat, mercy seat; woolsack † ; bar of justice; dock; forum,
hustings, bureau, drumhead; jury box, witness box.
senate house, town hall, theater; House of Commons, House of Lords; statehouse
[U.S.], townhouse.