adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an extrajudicial manner.
1. Outside the proceedings of the court, informally, privately, out of court.
1590. Swinburne, Testaments, 8 b. The opinion of a Iudge … deliuered priuatly, or extraiudicially.
1681. Baxter, Acc. Sherlocke, iv. 186. What they do extrajudicially and extra proprium forum, is Null.
1752. J. Louthian, Forms of Process (ed. 2), 273. The Custody of Processes borrowed up from the Clerk extrajudicially, shall be fixed by a Receipt-book.
1845. Ld. Campbell, Chancellors (1857), I. xvi. 254. He had extra-judicially pronounced opinions, which [etc.].
2. In a manner outside or contrary to the usual course of law, without legal justification, unwarrantably.
a. 1612. Donne, Βιαθανατος (1644), 138. A Bishop, being … callumniated by the people extrajudicially.
1660. R. Coke, Power & Subj., 257. He was never noted to punish any man rashly, or extrajudicially.
1786. Burke, W. Hastings, IV. § 10. Sir Elijah Impey, His Majesty’s Chief Justice, acting extrajudicially, and not within the limits of his jurisdiction.
1822. J. Flint, Lett. Amer., 172. Where the squire is supposed to be remiss in the execution of his duty, the people sometimes interfere extrajudicially.
