Outlawry

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Outlawry \Out"law`ry\, n.; pl. {Outlawries}.
     1. 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.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. The state of being an outlaw.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. Defiance of the law; habitual criminality.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  outlawry
       n : illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of
           the law [syn: {lawlessness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "outlawry":
     anarchy, anomie, banishment, blackballing, clearance, criminalism,
     criminality, defrocking, degradation, demotion, depluming,
     deportation, deprivation, detachment, disbarment, discard,
     disfellowship, disjunction, displuming, disposal, disposition,
     ejection, elimination, eradication, exclusion, excommunication,
     exile, expatriation, expulsion, extradition, fugitation,
     illegality, illicit business, illicitness, impermissibility,
     lawlessness, legal flaw, liquidation, ostracism, ostracization,
     outlawing, purge, relegation, removal, riddance, rustication,
     severance, stripping, suspension, technical flaw, transportation,
     unfrocking, unlawfulness, withdrawal, wrongfulness
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  OUTLAWRY, Eng. law. The act of being put out of the protection of the law 
  by process regularly sued out against a person who is in contempt in 
  refusing to become amenable to the court having jurisdiction. The 
  proceedings themselves are also called the outlawry. 
       2. Outlawry may take place in criminal or in civil cases. 3 Bl. Com. 
  283; Co. Litt. 128; 4 Bouv. Inst. n. 4196. 
       3. In the United States, outlawry in civil cases is unknown, and if 
  there are any cases of outlawry in criminal cases they are very rare. Dane's 
  Ab. eh. 193, a, 34. Vide Bac. Ab. Abatement, B; Id. h.t.; Gilb. Hist. C. P. 
  196, 197; 2 Virg. Cas. 244; 2 Dall. 92.