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The phrase "a case of illegal" is not correct in written English as it is incomplete and lacks a noun to follow "illegal." It can be used in contexts where you are discussing a specific instance of illegal activity, but it needs to be completed with a noun, such as "a case of illegal activity."
Example: "The police reported a case of illegal drug trafficking in the area."
Alternatives: "an instance of unlawful" or "a situation of illegal"
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The magistrates needed these documents as evidence in a case of illegal party financing, whereas Mr Berlusconi claimed the alleged offence was political.
The death of Cecil the lion, who largely lived in a protected game reserve, will likely turn out to have been a case of illegal poaching.
And the European Commission, which is already investigating the loan to Alitalia as a case of illegal state aid, is likely to object.
So, in a case of illegal capture, Mr. Justice Story rejected the item of profits on the voyage, and held this general language: 'Independent, however, of all authority, I am satisfied upon principle, that an allowance of damages upon the basis of a calculation of profits is inadmissible.
The European affairs minister, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, under fire after being placed under investigation in a case of illegal party funding, resigned today and was replaced by Noëlle Lenoir, a former member of the country's highest judicial authority, the Constitutional Council.
The proposed legal basis therefore constitute a case of illegal secondary legal basis.
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Macri, also, appears set to soon liberate himself fully from association with an investigation into a 2009 case of illegal phone tapping that targeted a former brother-in-law and a spokesman for victims of the terrorist attack on a Jewish center in Buenos Aires in 1985 in which 85 people died.
And in Southampton, Matt is forced to play a game of cat and mouse, as housing officers try to uncover a suspected case of illegal subletting.
Chennithala said a case for illegal possession of explosives had been registered against the temple.
After the aforementioned period, all cases of illegal carrying and storage of weapons will fall under the law of Ukraine.
Finally, due to pressure from Maiti and media, the police have registered a case of rape, sodomy and illegal confinement against the Saudi official, without naming him.
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