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countable and uncountable, plural illegalities
(law) the state of being illegal quotations examples
In Fraenkel’s defiance of mortality and professionalism and his skill in navigating the triple state lay part of the origins of his idea of the dual state. He answered the illegality in the Nazi prerogative state with his own commitment to illegality in both the resistance and even the legal system itself.
2020, Douglas G. Morris, The Ernst Fraenkel Dilemma, page 208
(law, uncountable) a defense to the validity of a contract because it was in violation of the law examples