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extralegal
(redirected from extralegally)

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ex·tra·le·gal  (kstr-lgl)
adj.
Not permitted or governed by law.

extra·legal·ly adv.
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Adj.1.extralegal - not regulated or sanctioned by law; "there were only extralegal recourses for their grievances"
illegal - prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules; "an illegal chess move"


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Grimsted defines mobbing as "Incidents where six or more people band together to enforce their will publicly by threatening or perpetrating physical injury to persons or property extralegally, ostensibly to correct problems or injustices within their society without challenging their basic structures.
Legally and extralegally, ranchers across Mexico have cobbled together vast extensions of pasture and acreage for sorghum--for cattle feed--over the past fifty years.
For nearly three decades, sympathetic officials ignored the new laws and permitted the more flexible mores and folkways of the previous government to continue extralegally.
 
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