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Definitions of outlawry in various dictionaries:
noun - illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts
The act or process of outlawing or the state of having been outlawed.
Defiance of the law.
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| bOutlawryb 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. |
| illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts defiance of the law |
| The act or process of outlawing or the state of having been outlawed. |
| Defiance of the law. |
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In historical legal systems, an outlaw is declared as outside the protection of the law. In pre-modern societies, the criminal is withdrawn all legal protection, so that anyone is legally empowered to persecute or kill them.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. * In the common law of England, a "Writ of Outlawry" made the pronouncement Caput lupinum ("Let his be a wolf's head", literally "May he bear a wolfish head") with respect to its subject, using "head" to refer to the entire person (cf. "per capita") and equating that person with a wolf ( warg ) in the eyes of the law : Not only was the subject deprived of all legal rights of the law being outside the "law", but others could kill |