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Valid but illicit or valid but illegal (Latin: valida sed illicita) is a description applied in the Catholic Church to describe either an unauthorized celebration of a sacrament or an improperly placed juridic act that nevertheless has effect. Validity is presumed whenever an act is performed by a qualified person and includes those things ...
International legal instruments have taken a consistently narrow approach when defining the concept. [14] [15] [16] These instruments generally only regard illicit enrichment as a concept that relates to corruption and only include limiting terms such as 'an increase in assets' when describing the form a person's illicit enrichment may take.
Illicit trade is the production or distribution of a good or service that is considered illegal by a legislature. [1] It includes trade that is strictly illegal in different jurisdictions, as well as trade that is illegal in some jurisdictions but legal in others. [2] Illicit trade can occur either in black markets or in
In 1981, the D.C. government enacted a law that repealed the sodomy law, as well as other consensual acts, and made the sexual assault laws gender neutral. However, the Congress overturned the new law. [49] A successful legislative repeal of the law followed in 1993. This time, Congress did not interfere.
Illegal products most often carried chemicals on the state's 66-chemical screening list — supporting a common belief that products that fail the state test are diverted to the illicit market.
In United States law, money laundering is the practice of engaging in financial transactions to conceal the identity, source, or destination of illegally gained money. In United Kingdom law, the common law definition is wider. The act is defined as "the process by which the proceeds of crime are converted into assets which appear to have a ...
In US law, the term illegal per se means that the act is inherently illegal. Thus, an act is illegal without extrinsic proof of any surrounding circumstances such as lack of scienter (knowledge) or other defenses. Acts are made illegal per se by statute, constitution or case law.
However, free trade also increases the sheer volume of legal cross-border trade and provides cover for drug smuggling—by providing ample opportunity to conceal illicit cargo in legal trade. While international free trade continues to expand the volume of legal trade, the ability to detect and interdict drug trafficking is severely diminished.