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What (who) is Outlaw - definition

PERSON DECLARED AS OUTSIDE THE PROTECTION OF THE LAW
Outlawry; Banditti; Outlawed; Outlawing; Desperado (outlaw)
  • HMS ''Bellerophon'']] after his surrender to the British in 1815
  • [[Erik the Red]] was outlawed by the [[Iceland]]ic [[Althing]] for three years (so in about 982 he went [[viking]] and explored Greenland).
  • In 1878, [[Ned Kelly]] and his gang of [[bushranger]]s were outlawed by the [[Government of Victoria]], Australia.
  • Elizabeth]] and returned to England.
  • A statue of [[Robin Hood]], a heroic outlaw in English folklore

outlaw         
(outlaws, outlawing, outlawed)
1.
When something is outlawed, it is made illegal.
In 1975 gambling was outlawed...
The German government has outlawed some fascist groups.
...the outlawed political parties.
= ban
VERB: be V-ed, V n, V-ed
2.
An outlaw is a criminal who is hiding from the authorities. (OLD-FASHIONED)
N-COUNT
Outlaw         
·noun A person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection.
II. Outlaw ·vt To remove from legal jurisdiction or enforcement; as, to outlaw a debt or claim; to deprive of legal force.
III. Outlaw ·vt To deprive of the benefit and protection of law; to declare to be an outlaw; to Proscribe.
outlaw         
I. n.
Robber, bandit, brigand, freebooter, highwayman, marauder.
II. v. a.
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Wikipedia

Outlaw

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 In pre-modern societies, all legal protection was withdrawn from the criminal, so that anyone was legally empowered to persecute or kill them.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 John 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 the first (example: Sándor Rózsa, 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.

Examples of use of Outlaw
1. Beardall‘s attorney, Lucius Outlaw III, said: "Mr.
2. Congress wants to outlaw these practices altogether.
3. Vitamins÷ New directive could outlaw many supplements Controversial new European laws which could outlaw thousands of vitamin and mineral supplements have been upheld by European Court judges.
4. The council last week decided to outlaw plastic bags.
5. Both sides also agreed to outlaw the carrying of arms.