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OUTLAWRY

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 381 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OUTLAWRY , the See also:

process of putting a See also:person out of the See also:protection of the See also:law; a See also:punishment for contemptuously refusing to appear when called in See also:court, or evading See also:justice by disappearing. It was an offence of very See also:early existence in See also:England, and was the punishment of those who could not pay the were or See also:blood-See also:money to the relatives of the deceased. By the Saxon law, an outlaw, or laughlesman, lost his libera lex and had no protection from the See also:frank-See also:pledge in the decennary in which See also:Satara to See also:Baroda, where he incurred the resentment of the he was sworn. He was, too, a frendlesman, because he forfeited I Bombay See also:government by his fearless exposure of corruption. his See also:friends; for if any of them rendered him any assistance, they became liable to the same punishment. He was, at one See also:time, said to be caput lupinum, or to have a See also:wolf's See also:head, from the fact that he might be knocked on the head like a wolf by any one that should meet him; but so early as the time of See also:Bracton an outlaw might only be killed if he defended himself or ran away; once taken, his See also:life was in the See also:king's hands, and any one killing him had to See also:answer for it as for any other See also:homicide. The party guilty of outlawry suffered See also:forfeiture of chattels in all cases, and in cases of See also:treason or See also:murder forfeiture of real See also:property: for other offences the profits of See also:land during his lifetime. In cases of treason or See also:felony, outlawry was followed also by corruption of blood. An outlaw was civiliter mortuus. He could not See also:sue in any court, nor had he any legal rights which could be enforced, but he was personally liable upon all causes of See also:action. An outlawry might be reversed by proceedings in See also:error, or by application to a court. It was finally abolished in See also:civil proceedings in 1879, while in criminal proceedings it has practically become obsolete, being unnecessary through the See also:general See also:adoption of See also:extradition See also:treaties.

A woman was said to be waived rather than outlawed. In See also:

Scotland outlawry or fugitation may be pronounced by the supreme criminal court in the See also:absence of the See also:panel on the See also:day of trial. In the See also:United States outlawry never existed in civil cases, and in the few cases where it existed in criminal proceedings it has become obsolete.

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