Outlawry

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act or process of outlawing or the state of having been outlawed.
  • n. Defiance of the law.
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  • n. A declaration that an individual cannot benefit from the protection of law in a jurisdiction.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • n. The state of being an outlaw.
  • n. Defiance of the law; habitual criminality.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. 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.
  • n. 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.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of the law
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    illegality   
    Cross Reference
    clerk of the outlawries   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    excommunication    banishment    proscription    spoliation    forfeiture   
     
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