extralegal

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extralegal

adjective extra-legal

  1. not comparable Occurring outside the law; not governed by law; lawless. Extra-legal raids in Moscow and Leningrad in which 130 males were arrested in late summer 1933 were the harbinger of the recriminalization of male homosexuality later that year.

Opposite: intralegal

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adjective

Opposite: intralegal

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adj occurring outside the law

Españolextralegal
中文法外 fǎwài
Françaisextralégal
Deutschextralegal, rechtsfrei
Ελληνικάέκνομος éknomos

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@misc{extralegal_2026,
  title = {extralegal},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/extralegal},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}