Definition of Outlawries

1. Noun. (plural of outlawry) ¹

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Definition of Outlawries

1. outlawry [n] - See also: outlawry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Outlawries

outlash
outlashes
outlast
outlasted
outlasting
outlasts
outlaugh
outlaughed
outlaughing
outlaughs
outlaw
outlaw(a)
outlaw country
outlawed
outlawing
outlawries (current term)
outlawry
outlaws
outlay
outlaying
outlays
outlead
outleading
outleads
outleaped
outleaping
outleaps
outleapt
outlearn

Literary usage of Outlawries

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Equity Draftsman: Being a Selection of Forms of Pleading in Suits in Equity by Frederick Miles Van Heythuysen, Edward Hughes (1828)
"... X. Plea of two outlawries, with the certificates thereof an* ... sub pede sigilli hereunto also annexed appeareth), both of which said outlawries ..."

2. A Treatise on the Law of Defamation: With Forms of Pleadings by George Wingrove Cooke (1844)
"... in the court of King's Bench, and for the more easy reversal of outlawries in ... in the said court of King's Bench to outlawries for debts, trespasses, ..."

3. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament (1906)
"Ordered, That a Committee of Privileges be appointed. outlawries BILL. ... Clandestine outlawries," read the first time ; to be read a second time. JOURNAL. ..."

4. The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer: Continued to the Present Time by Richard Burn (1797)
"... any outlawries be pronounced, they Jhall be viid ; and before the outlawries pronounced, the faid writs and ..."

5. Hansard's Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1883)
"Bill "for the more effectual preventing Clandestine outlawries," read the first time ; to be read a second time. THE QUEEN'S SPEECH. MR. ..."

6. Maryland Historical Magazine by Maryland Historical Society (1909)
"LIST OF outlawries, WESTERN SHORE. I Thomas Brooke Hodgkin Clerk of the General Court of the Western Shore of the State of Maryland do hereby certify that ..."

7. The Transactions of the High Court of Chancery: Both by Practice and by Great Britain Court of Chancery, William Tothill, Robert Holborne (1872)
"... not ad- ^j admit- •' j , . ° ted to sue. Grevill contra Bancks, 4 Jac. li. B. fo. Outlawed mitted to sue. outlawries. Whitney contra Strachey ..."

8. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"... for preventing clandestine outlawries was read, and ordered a 2d reading. And that for relief of the poor was read a 2d time, and committed for Tuesday. ..."

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