"Unlawful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... countries. For, while the English were fighting in Spain, the other states of Europe had all joined together against Napoleon, and driven him away from robbing them, and hunted him at last to Paris, where they made him give up all his unlawful power. The right king of France, Louis XVIII., was brought home, and Napoleon was sent to a little island named Elba, in the Mediterranean Sea, where it was thought he could ...
— Young Folks' History of England • Charlotte M. Yonge
... early history of insurance, objection was continually made that it was of the nature of a wager, and consequently not only unlawful, but contra bonos mores; yet the courts of law in England from the first drew a distinction between a wager and a contract founded on the principle of indemnity, which principle runs through and underlies the whole subject of insurance. Lord Mansfield ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 • Various
... No, not deluded; But hind'red from desire unchaste and rude. O, let me woo ye with the tongue of ruth, Dewing your princely hand with pity's tears, That you would leave this most unlawful suit, If e'er we live, till Fauconbridge be dead, (As God defend his death I should desire). Then, if your highness deign so base a match, And holy laws admit a marriage, Considering our affinity in blood, I will become your ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition) • Various
... a half-hour," said the new Sheriff. "This is an unlawful and armed assembly. When I get back, I want to find the court-house occupied only by unarmed citizens who ...
— The Call of the Cumberlands • Charles Neville Buck
... Master's goods she shall not waste, Embezel, purloin or lend unto Others nor suffer the same to be wasted or purloined. But to her power Shall discover the Same to her s:^d Master. Taverns or Ailhouss she Shall not frequent, at any unlawful game She Shall not play, Matrimony she Shall not Contract with any persons during s:^d Term. From her master's Service She Shall not at any time unlawfully absent herself. But in all things as a good honest and faithful Servant ...
— The Pot of Gold - And Other Stories • Mary E. Wilkins
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