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What does extralegal mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word extralegal? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Occurring outside the law; not governed by law; lawless.
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That is likely: those detained are pressed and sometimes tortured into confessing and giving up more names in a secretive, extralegal system known as shuanggui.
If war is an extralegal datum, why does it apply if only in part?
Many governments question the utility of the system and often work to undermine its effectiveness, including by pressuring the Commission with extralegal, political arguments.
But Mr Putin's Russia has a penchant for turning bordering regions into extralegal no-man's-lands, ripe for criminal exploitation.
Furthermore, the elders never gave any indication of being aware that their actions were extralegal, if not illegal.
Its participants drew on an American tradition of collective organization and crowd action which held extralegal activity to be legitimate when justice was otherwise elusive.

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