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outlaw [Old English tlaga, from Old Norse tlagi, from t out + lag lg law] 1 : a person excluded from the benefit or protection of the law [a trespasser is not an ] 2 : a lawless person or a fugitive from the law 3 : a person or organization (as a nation) under a ban or restriction or considered to be in defiance of norms or laws [considered an for its support of terrorism] vt : to make illegal out·law·ry [at-lȯr-ē] n ...
outlawed
contrary to or forbidden by law banned illicit as a member of an outlawed political party...
Outlaw
Outlaw [fr. utlaghe, Sax.; utlagatus, Lat.], a person put out of the law, or deprived of its benefits (see next title)....
Couthutlaugh
Couthutlaugh [fr. Couth, Sax., knowing, and utlaugh, an outlaw], a person who willingly and knowingly received an outlaw and cherished or concealed him; for which offence he underwent the same punishment as the outlaw himself, Bract....
Outlawry
Outlawry [fr. utlagaria, Lat.], the being put out of the law for contempt in wilfully avoiding the execution of the process of the King's Court.Outlawry has long been obsolete in civil proceedings, and is formally abolished by the Civil Procedure Acts Repeal Act, 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. 59), in civil proceedings. In criminal proceedings it is practically disused, but is formally kept alive by the Forfeiture Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 23), which Act, while abolishing forfeiture for felony expressly provides that nothing therein shall affect the law of forfeiture consequent on outlawry; and the procedure in and for reversal of outlawry is given in Rules 88-110 of the Crown Office Rules of 1906.The maxim applicable to outlaws is, 'let them be answerable to all, and none to them.' Utlagatus est quasi extra legem positus; caput gerit lupinum. 7 Co. 14, (An outlaw is, as it were, placed outside the law; he bears the head of a wolf.) Accordingly, any person outlawed is civiliter mortuus. He c...
Amittere legem terr', or liberam legem
Amittere legem terr', or liberam legem, to lose the liberty of being sworn in any Court. but by 6 & 7 Vict. c. 85, persons who were previously excluded from giving evidence by incapacity arising from crime or interest are made competent witnesses, their credibility being left to the jury. A person outlawed was (see OUTLAW) said to lose his law; i.e., to be put without its protection, so that he could not sue, although he could be sued, Glanvil, lib. ii....
Exigent, or exigi facias
Exigent, or exigi facias (that your cause to be demanded), judicial writ commanding the sheriff to demand the defendant from county Court to county Court, or, if in London, from husting to husting, until he be outlawed; or if he appear, then to take and have him before the Court on a day certain to answer to the plaintiff in an action of, etc. see OUTLAW....
attainder
attainder [Anglo-French atteinder, from ateindre to convict, sentence, literally, to reach, attain, ultimately from Latin attingere to reach, from ad to + tangere to touch] : the termination of the civil rights of a person upon a sentence of death or outlawry for treason or a felony see also bill of attainder at bill, corruption of blood NOTE: In English law up to the nineteenth century, attainder was the harsh consequence of conviction for treason or a felony. It resulted in the forfeiture of the convicted person's property. It also involved corruption of blood, which barred the person from inheriting, retaining, or passing title, rank, or property. A person outlawed lost the right to seek protection under the law. Article III, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution prohibits corruption of blood or forfeiture upon a conviction for treason “except during the life of the person attainted,” and Article I, Section 9 prohibits bills of attainder. Attainder was abolished in Engl...
criminalize
criminalize -ized -iz·ing : to make criminal : outlaw [the statute criminalizing the use of contraceptives "R. H. Bork"] compare illegalize crim·i·nal·i·za·tion [kri-mə-nə-lə-zā-shən, -lī-] n ...
hot cargo
hot cargo : products made by nonunion employees or by employees considered to be treated unfairly by their employer adj : of, relating to, or being an agreement between labor and an employer barring the employer from using or otherwise dealing with the products of another employer whose employees are nonunion NOTE: Hot cargo agreements, clauses, and provisions were outlawed by the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act. ...
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