Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Defiance of the law; unlawful behavior.
- noun The act or process of outlawing or the state of having been outlawed.
- noun A proceeding, doctrine, or condition in which one convicted of a crime is deprived of the protection of the law.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
- noun The state of being an outlaw.
- noun Defiance of the law; habitual criminality.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun law, UK, Anglo-Saxon A declaration that an individual cannot benefit from the protection of law in a jurisdiction.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of the law
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This constitutes the prohibited practice of 'outlawry' forbidden by the Texas Constitution, Article 1 Section 20.
Newspaper Tree 2009
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Article 23b of the Hague Regulations, signed by the U.S. and other nations in 1907, prohibits assassination, proscription, or outlawry of an enemy, or putting a price upon an enemy's head, as well as offering a reward for an enemy 'dead or alive'.
Blake Fleetwood: Did We Save Bin Laden From a "Fate Worse Than Death"? Blake Fleetwood 2011
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Levinson wrote: The principle underlying the outlawry of war is this: The law should always be on the moral side of every question.
Bruce E. Levine: When the World Outlawed War: David Swanson's New Book Bruce E. Levine 2012
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Article 23b of the Hague Regulations, signed by the U.S. and other nations in 1907, prohibits assassination, proscription, or outlawry of an enemy, or putting a price upon an enemy's head, as well as offering a reward for an enemy 'dead or alive'.
Blake Fleetwood: Did We Save Bin Laden From a "Fate Worse Than Death"? Blake Fleetwood 2011
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“Secret murder” on the other hand (i.e. a concealed killing) was almost always punished by outlawry.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Public Opinion, Anti-Discrimination Law, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 2010
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Levinson wrote: The principle underlying the outlawry of war is this: The law should always be on the moral side of every question.
Bruce E. Levine: When the World Outlawed War: David Swanson's New Book Bruce E. Levine 2012
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They have placed themselves, in that delightful phrase of Norman French, hors-la-loi or, If you will, into a state of outlawry.
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They have placed themselves, in that delightful phrase of Norman French, hors-la-loi or, If you will, into a state of outlawry.
Archive 2008-01-27 2008
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Under the common law of England, a judgment of outlawry meant that the outlaw had forfeited entirely the protection of the legal system.
Archive 2008-01-27 2008
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Under the common law of England, a judgment of outlawry meant that the outlaw had forfeited entirely the protection of the legal system.
vanishedone commented on the word outlawry
By tradition each new U.K. parliamentary session begins with a reading of the Outlawries Bill in the House of Commons before the legislators start legislating.
October 22, 2007
qroqqa commented on the word outlawry
The reason for the reading of the bill is that Parliament is opened by the Monarch seated in full state in the House of Lords. The Usher of the Black Rod is sent to the House of Commons to desire the members to attend the royal speech. The Commons duly, dutifully troop in, hear their monarch opening Parliament, and then return to their own chamber.
They then introduce some House of Commons business: the reading of a bill for preventing clandestine outlawries. It is never proceeded with further; but having shown their independence by attending to their own concerns, only then do the Commons debate in reply to the royal speech.
See for example Hansard of 22 November 2003.
February 12, 2009
bilby commented on the word outlawry
Interesting in that in Australia the term reading a bill means to debate/examine/consider a piece of proposed legislation. No one actually stands on the floor of parliament and reads the bill aloud.
February 12, 2009
kewpid commented on the word outlawry
In the first reading at least, the title of the Bill is read aloud.
February 12, 2009
bilby commented on the word outlawry
I move that the bill be read a second time.
February 12, 2009