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Definition of Outlawry
1. Noun. Illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of the law.
Definition of Outlawry
1. n. 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.
Definition of Outlawry
1. Noun. (legal British Anglo-Saxon) A declaration that an individual cannot benefit from the protection of law in a jurisdiction. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Outlawry
1. habitual defiance of the law [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outlawry
Literary usage of Outlawry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Concerning High by Edward Coke (1797)
"... therefore (he might within fr.e years after the re- verfall of the faid outlawry,
... the wife could not have any writ of error to reverie the outlawry, ..."
2. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1794)
"Every outlawry is a judgment. Chan. Rep. Ю. in the earl of Oxford's cafe, cites 'Dodt.
and Stud. ... The naturi of the debt is not changed by the outlawry. ..."
3. Pleading and Practice of the High Court of Chancery by Edmund Robert Daniell, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins, Thomas Emerson Headlam (1846)
"outlawry. outlawry ought to be pleaded; But may be shown at the hearing. ...
Plea of outlawry and duchy of Lancaster may be pleaded in disability of a ..."
4. A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law: Comprising the Practice, Pleadings by Joseph Chitty (1819)
"... 217 return to exigent of five exactions, and coroner's judgment of outlawry,
217 return to exigent of five exactions, and judgment of outlawry. ..."
5. Laws of the State of New York by New York (State). (1802)
"avoiding of the faid outlawry. than for ... And be it farther enacted, That upon
the payment where any outlawry ..."
6. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1879)
"It is plain that by English law CHAP. xxn. outlawry involved the confiscation of
the outlaw's lands ; but confiscation of lands, the regular punishment for ..."
7. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I. by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1898)
"441, proposes to use outlawry in such actions as Debt and Covenant as well as in
Trespass. For early cases of outlawry ..."
8. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1899)
"At a yet later stage, partly by statute, partly under the cover of fictions,
Capias and outlawry became common to many forms, and ' imprisonment upon mesne ..."
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