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Outlawry   /ˈaʊtlˌɔri/   Listen
noun
Outlawry  n.  (pl. outlawries)  
1.
The act of outlawing; the putting a man out of the protection of law, or the process by which a man (as an absconding criminal) is deprived of that protection.
2.
The state of being an outlaw.
3.
Defiance of the law; habitual criminality.





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"Outlawry" Quotes from Famous Books



... it was a common right of the people to present petitions at Tynwald, a common privilege of persons unjustly punished to appeal against judgment, and a common prerogative of outlaws to ask at the foot of the Tynwald Mount on Tynwald Day for the removal of their outlawry. All these old rights and regulations came from Iceland, and by the help of the Sagas it needs no special imagination to make the scenes of their action live again. I seem to see King Orry sitting on his chair ...
— The Little Manx Nation - 1891 • Hall Caine
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... be assured that henceforth the deer of Evesham Chase are as free to you and your men as to me. Forest laws or no forest laws, I will no more lift a hand against men to whom I owe so much. Come when you will to the castle, my friends, and let us talk over what can be done to erase your outlawry and restore you to ...
— Winning His Spurs - A Tale of the Crusades • George Alfred Henty
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... As for their outlawry, great robberies, and grand murders, the veriest child, nowadays, must know that money heals the whole of that. Even if they had murdered people of a good position, it would only cost about twice as much to prove their motives loyal. ...
— Lorna Doone - A Romance of Exmoor • R. D. Blackmore
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... warring of Spain against the powers of the world, not at home but in her western possessions, finally led to that outlawry which under the name of buccaneers terrorized the Caribbean Sea during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In 1625 the island of St. Christopher was settled by the buccaneers to establish a base; and later the island of Tortuga ...
— Pirates and Piracy • Oscar Herrmann
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... and governs the cemetery[34] as well as the cradle; while from it emanate influences that enwrap and surround the villager, from birth to death. Since the outlawry of Christianity, and especially since the division of the empire into Buddhist parishes, the bonzes have had the oversight of birth, death, marriage and divorce. Particularly tenacious, in common with priestcraft all over the world, is their clutch ...
— The Religions of Japan - From the Dawn of History to the Era of Meiji • William Elliot Griffis
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