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Princeton's WordNet

  1. lawlessness, outlawrynoun

    illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of the law

GCIDE

  1. Outlawrynoun

    Defiance of the law; habitual criminality.

Wiktionary

  1. outlawrynoun

    A declaration that an individual cannot benefit from the protection of law in a jurisdiction.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Outlawry

    A decree by which any man is cut off from the community, and deprived of the protection of the law.

    Etymology: from outlaw.

    By proscription and bills of outlawry,
    Octavius, Antony, and Lepidus,
    Have put to death an hundred senators. William Shakespeare.

    Divers were returned knights and burgesses for the parliament; many of which had been by Richard III. attainted by outlawries. Francis Bacon, Henry VII.

Wikipedia

  1. outlawry

    An outlaw, in its original and legal meaning, is a person declared as outside the protection of the law. In pre-modern societies, all legal protection was withdrawn from the criminal, so that anyone was legally empowered to persecute or kill them. Outlawry was thus one of the harshest penalties in the legal system. In early Germanic law, the death penalty is conspicuously absent, and outlawing is the most extreme punishment, presumably amounting to a death sentence in practice. The concept is known from Roman law, as the status of homo sacer, and persisted throughout the Middle Ages. A secondary meaning of outlaw is a person who systematically avoids capture by evasion and violence to deter capture. These meanings are related and overlapping but not necessarily identical. A fugitive who is declared outside protection of law in one jurisdiction but who receives asylum and lives openly and obedient to local laws in another jurisdiction is an outlaw in the first meaning but not the second (example - William Bankes, detailed below). A fugitive who remains formally entitled to a form of trial if captured alive but avoids capture because of high risk of conviction and severe punishment if tried is an outlaw in the second sense but not first (example - Rozsa Sandor, tried and sentenced merely to a term of imprisonment when captured.). In the common law of England, a "writ of outlawry" made the pronouncement Caput lupinum ("Let his be a wolf's head"), equating that person with a wolf in the eyes of the law. Not only was the subject deprived of all legal rights, being outside the "law", but others could kill him on sight as if he were a wolf or other wild animal. Women were declared "waived" rather than outlawed but it was effectively the same punishment.

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  1. outlawry

    Outlawry refers to the state of being declared as outside the protection of the law. It is a legal procedure or punishment in which a person is pronounced as an 'outlaw', making them devoid of the benefits and protections of the law. This generally entails that the person can be harmed or killed by others without legal consequences. Additionally, the person cannot use the courts to seek justice or remedies. The practice of outlawry historically existed in many societies; however, it is not often used in modern legal systems.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of outlawry in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of outlawry in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

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