wrongfully

How To Use wrongfully In A Sentence

• In explaining the succession which is worked out between buyer and seller for the purpose of creating a prescriptive right, such as a right of way over neighboring land to the land bought and sold, it was shown that one who, instead of purchasing the land, had wrongfully possessed himself of it by force, would not be treated as a successor, and would get no benefit from the previous use of the way by his disseisee. The Common Law
• He's introduced a bill that would increase the State compensation for the wrongfully convicted to a still-meager $85,000.00 per year plus any child support arrearage and would bar anyone who accepts the money from bringing a civil rights case. Locke Bowman: The Price of Injustice: Wrongfully Convicted Deserve Full Compensation
• Blake was wrongfully arrested and is now demanding an apology from the police.
• To usurp is to wrongfully assume power or the throne, to encroach upon something.
• Were old trees being purloined, appropriated wrongfully, when they were sectioned by scientists?
• The allegations of child sexual abuse and molestation ruined the lives of some teachers, who were wrongfully accused.
• Wrongfully, many people confuse success with wealth: they assume that a person's trimph can be concluded from the expensiveness of his or her watch, car, or house.
• The criminal justice system is in need of urgent reform to prevent more people being wrongfully imprisoned.
• But he no sooner got well again than he repented of his repentance, and persisted in wrongfully keeping to himself some of the wealth belonging to the archbishopric. A Child's History of England
• But it cannot be in an avowry to a replevin, becaufe the avowry is to juftify the taking the cattle \ and whether the mo - ney is paid or not, is not the queftion; but if the diftrefs was rightfully taken, the avowant muft have a return; if wrongfully, he muft anfwer the plaintiff's damages. Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of King's bench; with some special cases in the courts of Chancery, Common pleas and Exchequer, alphabetically digest under proper heads;