The phrase "a wrongful use" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the improper or illegal application of something, such as a resource, tool, or privilege.
Example: "The company faced legal consequences due to a wrongful use of confidential information."
Alternatives: "an improper use" or "a misuse".
Joe Ricketts, the billionaire who contemplated a wrongful use of Wright, apparently didn't get that memo.
"Extortion is the obtaining of property from another, or the obtaining the property of a corporation from an officer, agent or employee thereof, with his consent, induced by a wrongful use of force or fear, or under color of official right". Penal Law of 1909, § 850, as amended, Laws of 1917, ch.
"Extortion is the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by a wrongful use of force or fear, or under color of official right". Commissioners of the Code, Proposed Penal Code of the State of New York § 613 (1865) (Field Code).
The New York extortion law provided: "Extortion is the obtaining of property from another, or the obtaining the property of a corporation from an officer, agent, or employee thereof, with his consent, induced by a wrongful use of force or fear, or under color of official right".
In 2010 Time Weekly, a magazine in Guangdong province, reported on a case of apparent wrongful use of shuanggui against a police official.
Any person dealing in any such merchandise may be enjoined from dealing therein within the United States or may be required to export or destroy such merchandise or to remove or obliterate such trademark and shall be liable for the same damages and profits provided for wrongful use of a trade-mark, under the provisions of sections 81 to 109 of title 15.
In their suit filed in Kentucky state court in August, Armstrong lawyers claimed that Shemwell's filing of a discrimination complaint with the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) amounted to "wrongful use of civil proceedings" -- essentially, a frivolous lawsuit -- after government officials declined to pursue Shemwell's discrimination claim against the company.
And in specifying the conduct that would incur liability for infringement, the Act similarly prescribed that an aggrieved party could "enjoin the wrongful use of such trade-mark used in foreign commerce or commerce with Indian tribes". Act of March 3, 1881, 21 Stat.
Armstrong filed suit against Shemwell in Kentucky state court, claiming that the miner had filed a "false discrimination claim" against them, and that his claim amounted to "wrongful use of civil proceedings" -- akin to a frivolous lawsuit.
On paper the legal test for wrongful use is straightforward: whether an ordinary person while examining the original work and the alleged copied work side by side, would conclude that the second work is indeed copied from the original work.
It complains that the episode marked "the third instance in less than three years in which the government has disclosed a substantial misrepresentation regarding the scope of a major collection program .By way of illustration the judge refers to an earlier reprimand, also previously unknown, over the wrongful use of the telephone records that the NSA has collected from every American since 2006.
