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  • 21gain wrongfully — index extort Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 22ingress wrongfully — index encroach Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 23seize wrongfully — index infringe Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 24take wrongfully — index hold up (rob), purloin Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 25use wrongfully — index infringe Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 26wrongful — wrongfully, adv. wrongfulness, n. /rawng feuhl, rong /, adj. 1. unjust or unfair: a wrongful act; a wrongful charge. 2. having no legal right; unlawful: The court ruled it was a wrongful diversion of trust income. [1275 1325; ME; see WRONG, FUL]… …

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  • 27line your pocket —    wrongfully to enrich yourself    The money provides the lining:     ... adept in the field of corruption and lining his own pocket. (Goebbels, 1945, in translation)    In America, as line your vest:     I think he s been lining his vest. (R.… …

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  • 28corruptly — Wrongfully; acting with the intent to obtain an improper advantage for self or someone else, inconsistent with official duty and the rights of others. State v Lehman, 182 Mo 424, 81 SW 1118; State v Johnson, 77 Ohio St 461, 83 NE 702 …

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  • 29wrongful attachment — Wrongfully obtaining or tortiously employing an order for, or writ, of attachment, as where no ground for attachment exists, where property of the defendant not liable to attachment is seized, or where property of a third person is seized as that …

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  • 30List of miscarriage of justice cases — Main article: Miscarriage of justice This is a list of miscarriage of justice cases. This list includes cases where a convicted individual was later found to be innocent of the crime and has received either an official exoneration, or a consensus …

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