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Definition of Outlawed
1. Adjective. Contrary to or forbidden by law. "Unlawful measures"
Similar to: Illegal
Derivative terms: Illicitness, Outlaw, Unlawfulness
Definition of Outlawed
1. Adjective. (context: of an act) put beyond the limits of the law, forbidden. ¹
2. Adjective. (context: of a person) put beyond the limits of the law, made an outlaw. ¹
3. Verb. (past of outlaw) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Outlawed
1. outlaw [v] - See also: outlaw
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outlawed
Literary usage of Outlawed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1794)
"A man outlawed is capable of taking a hafe from the queen as Ow. :i6. farmer to
her¡ by ... outlawed, he cannot .-redeem them during this his outlawry ..."
2. Business Law for Business Men: A Reference Book Showing the Laws of by Anthony Jennings Bledsoe (1903)
"WHEN outlawed NOTE IS RENEWED.—A note is renewed by the promise of the maker to
... If the maker of the note admits, after it is outlawed, to a third person ..."
3. The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer by Richard Burn, Joseph Chitty, Thomas Chitty (1837)
"And as the award of the exigent gives the forfeiture of the goods, so the outlawry
gives the forfeiture or loss of the lands of the party outlawed ; te wit, ..."
4. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine (1816)
"[1090 was not bailable : he is only to be put into the same condition as if be
liad not been outlawed at all. If the outlawry was after judgment in debt, ..."
5. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary ...by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham (1832)
"AL SO, if a man bee outlawed in an action personall by processe upon the originall,
and bringeth a writ of err our, if he at whose suit he was outlawed will ..."
6. A Digest of the Law of Criminal Procedure in Indictable Offences by James Fitzjames Stephen, Herbert Stephen (1883)
"WHEN A PERSON MAY BE outlawed. IF a person indicted cannot be otherwise compelled
to appear, he may be outlawed; but as this process has practically become ..."
7. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1822)
"If a man is outlawed for treason or felony, he forfeits all his lands and tenements
... A man outlawed in a personal action forfeits his goods and chattels. ..."
8. The Law and Practice in Bankruptcy Under the National Bankruptcy Act of 1898 by William Miller Collier, William Horace Hotchkiss, Frank Bixby Gilbert, Fred Eugene Rosbrook (1921)
"(2) REVIVAL OF outlawed DEBT.—A bankrupt with knowledge of his insolvency, cannot
on the eve of bankruptcy revive an outlawed claim by a written, ..."
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