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oppression

oppression : an unjust or excessive exercise of power: as a : unlawful, wrongful, or corrupt exercise of authority by a public

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Oppressive

Unreasonably burdensome unjustly severe rigorous or harsh as oppressive taxes oppressive exactions of service an oppressive game law

Misgotten

Unjustly gotten

Epitrope

or ironically granted to some one to do what he proposes to do e g ldquoHe that is unjust let him be unjust stillrdquo

Oppressor

One who oppresses one who imposes unjust burdens on others one who harasses others with unjust laws or unreasonable severity

Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum

great (English) Habeas Corpus Act, 1679 (31 Car. 2, c. 2), did not newly establish the remedy for unjust imprisonment by writ of habeas corpus, but, reciting the shifts of gaolers and others to avoid their yielding

trust

trust in this entry constructive trust 1 : an implied trust imposed by a court to prevent the unjust enrichment of one who has wrongfully obtained (as through fraud or bad faith) title to the property or

Fraud

injury. In Concise Oxford Dictionary, it has been defined as criminal deception, use of false representation to gain unjust advantage; dishonest artifice or trick. According to Halsbury's Law of England, a representation is deemed to have been

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