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outlawry

[ US /ˈaʊtˌɫɔɹi/ ]
NOUN
  1. illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of the law

How To Use outlawry In A Sentence

  • It would be a bonny thing if, by the escape of one ill - doer another was to go scatheless, and the remeid is to summon the principal and put him to outlawry for the non-compearance. Catriona
  • It was from the chaos and outlawry of this time that the legend of Robin Hood was probably born.
  • Being sent for education to any Popish school or college abroad, upon conviction, incurs (if the party sent has any estate of inheritance) a kind of unalterable and perpetual outlawry. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12)
  • It is actually not such an exercise in glorious outlawry as all that.
  • As I cannot persuade myself that you do not intend to come, I urgently request you to reflect, if you have not already started, that the property of those who incurred outlawry with you is being sold, and if you do not arrive within the term conceded by your safe-conduct -- that is, during this month -- the same will happen to yourself without the possibility of any mitigation. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
  • They have placed themselves, in that delightful phrase of Norman French, hors-la-loi or, If you will, into a state of outlawry. Time to Give No Quarter
  • 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
  • Even though the Fed would be abolished and the gold coin standard restored, there would, at this point, be no outlawry of fractional-reserve banking.
  • 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
  • This constitutes the prohibited practice of 'outlawry' forbidden by the Texas Constitution, Article 1 Section 20. Newspaper Tree
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