unlaw

noun

1. A crime, an illegal action.

   obsolete, uncountable

2. Absence of law; lawlessness.

   uncountable

   In regard to abortion we are now lawless. The law of the land is no law at all; that is, unlaw reigns.

3. A fine exacted from a transgressor of the law.

   obsolete, uncountable

Where it comes from

From Middle English unlawe, unlaȝ, unlage, from Old English unlagu (“violation of law, illegality, injustice, lawlessness”), equivalent to un- (“lack or absence of”) + law.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry unlaw (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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