Outlawry

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  • noun. Defiance of the law; unlawful behavior.
  • noun. The act or process of outlawing or the state of having been outlawed.
  • noun. A proceeding, doctrine, or condition in which one convicted of a crime is deprived of the protection of the law.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The putting of a person out of the protection of law by legal means; also, the process by which one is deprived of that protection, or the condition of one so deprived: a punishment formerly imposed on one who, when called into court, contemptuously refused to appear, or evaded justice by disappearing.
  • noun. The condition of a debt or other cause of action when by reason of lapse of time it can no longer sustain an action. Such a debt still subsists for some other purposes — such, for instance, as enabling the creditor to retain a pledge if he holds a security.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. The state of being an outlaw.
  • noun. Defiance of the law; habitual criminality.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A declaration that an individual cannot benefit from the protection of law in a jurisdiction.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of the law
    • Word Usage
    "This constitutes the prohibited practice of 'outlawry' forbidden by the Texas Constitution, Article 1 Section 20."
    cross-reference
    clerk of the outlawries  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    illegality  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    attainder  banishment  brigandage  confiscation  cutting-off  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    anarchy  anomie  banishment  blackballing  clearance  
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