What is "outlaw"

Outlaw \Out"law`\ (out"l[add]`), n. [AS. [=u]tlaga, [=u]tlah. See Out, and Law.]

1. A person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection.
   --Blackstone.

2. A person engaging habitually in criminal activity, especially theft or robbery; an habitually lawless person, especially one who is a fugitive from the law.

Outlaw \Out"law`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Outlawed; p. pr. & vb. n. Outlawing.] [AS. ?tlagian.]

1. To deprive of the benefit and protection of law; to declare to be an outlaw.
   --Blackstone.

2. To remove from legal jurisdiction or enforcement; as, to outlaw a debt or claim; to deprive of legal force. ``Laws outlawed by necessity.''
   --Fuller.

3. To render illegal; to ban, prohibit, or proscribe under sanction of some penalty.

Old English utlaga "one put outside the law" (and thereby deprived of its benefits and protections), from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse utlagi (n.) "outlaw," from utlagr (adj.) "outlawed, banished," from ut "out" (see out (adv.)) + *lagu, plural of lag "law" (see law).[G]if he man to deaðe gefylle, beo he þonne utlah ["Laws of Edward & Guthrum," c.924] Meaning "one living a lawless life" is first recorded 1880. As an adjective from Old English.

Old English utlagian "to outlaw, banish," from utlaga "an outlaw" (see outlaw (n.)). Related: Outlawed; outlawing.

n. 1 A fugitive from the law. 2 A person who is excluded from normal legal rights. 3 A person who operates outside established norms. 4 A wild horse. 5 (context humorous English) An in-law: a relative by marriage. vb. 1 To declare illegal 2 To place a ban upon 3 To remove from legal jurisdiction or enforcement. 4 To deprive of legal force.

v. declare illegal; outlaw; "Marijuana is criminalized in the U.S." [syn: criminalize, criminalise, illegalize, illegalise] [ant: legalize, legalize, legalize]

1. adj. contrary to or forbidden by law; "an illegitimate seizure of power"; "illicit trade"; "an outlaw strike"; "unlawful measures" [syn: illegitimate, illicit, outlaw(a), outlawed, unlawful]

2. disobedient to or defiant of law; "lawless bands roaming the plains" [syn: lawless, outlaw(a)]

n. someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime [syn: criminal, felon, crook, malefactor]

In historical legal systems, an outlaw is declared as outside the protection of the law. In pre-modern societies, the criminal is withdrawn all legal protection, so that anyone is legally empowered to persecute or kill them. Outlawry was thus one of the harshest penalties in the legal system. In early Germanic law, the death penalty is conspicuously absent, and outlawing is the most extreme punishment, presumably amounting to a death sentence in practice. The concept is known from Roman law, as the status of homo sacer, and persisted throughout the Middle Ages.

In the common law of England, a "Writ of Outlawry" made the pronouncement Caput gerat lupinum ("Let his be a wolf's head", literally "May he bear a wolfish head") with respect to its subject, using "head" to refer to the entire person (cf. "per capita") and equating that person with a wolf in the eyes of the law: Not only was the subject deprived of all legal rights of the law being outside of the "law", but others could kill him on sight as if he were a wolf or other wild animal. Women were declared "waived" rather than outlawed but it was effectively the same punishment.

Outlaw (Inez Temple) is a fictional character created by Marvel Comics for their series' Deadpool and Agent X. She is a mutant with the ability of superhuman strength and an uncanny aptitude with firearms.

Not to be confused with the roller coaster at Silver Dollar City, Outlaw Run.

The Outlaw is a wooden roller coaster located at Adventureland in Altoona, Iowa, near Des Moines.

The Outlaw made its debut in 1993. It was the second roller coaster built by Custom Coasters International, which soon became known as one of the world's premier builders of wooden roller coasters.

The original spokesperson for The Outlaw was an old miner character who appeared in television, radio, and print advertisements for Adventureland. He can still be seen outside the lower queue of The Outlaw in cartoon representation, on the "you must be this tall to ride" sign.

Outlaw (2005) is the fifth studio album by British band, Alabama 3.

An outlaw is a person who is declared as no longer protected by the law.

Outlaw may also refer to:

Outlaw is a 2007 action- crime- drama film written and directed by British filmmaker Nick Love. Outlaw stars Sean Bean, Danny Dyer, Bob Hoskins, Lennie James, Rupert Friend and Sean Harris.

The film is set in Britain in 2006. Sean Bean plays a soldier who returns home from duty to find that the country for which he has been fighting has become a war zone itself thanks to rampant crime. He joins forces with likeminded people to take on the evil that threatens to take over his home.

Outlaw is a single-player arcade game by Atari Inc., originally released in 1976. It simulates an Old West fast draw duel between the player and the computer. Outlaw was a response to Gun Fight, released by Midway in North America the year before.

Outlaw is the fourteenth studio album by American country music artist, Mark Chesnutt. It was released on June 22, 2010, via Saguaro Road Records.

Outlaw is a 1999 Italian drama film directed by Enzo Monteleone. It is based on the book by the Italian anarchist Horst Fantazzini. It was entered into the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.

"Outlaw" is a song by American hip-hop artist 50 Cent, released as a song from his upcoming 50 Cent's fifth studio album, Street King Immortal. The song features production from hip-hop producer Cardiak, and was officially released as a digital download on July 19, 2011.

Outlaw is the first novel of the eight-part Outlaw Chronicles series by British writer of historical fiction, Angus Donald, released on 10 July 2009 through Little, Brown and Company. The début novel was relatively well received.

The term outlaw, or outlawed refers to a crew (or train) which can no longer move because the crew has reached the maximum number of hours they are allowed to work, thereby outlawing their controlling the further movement of any train. All they may do is be relieved or deadhead to a "home terminal" (such as the place where they came on duty near their point of residence) or an "away from home terminal" (such as an approved hotel) to begin a period of rest.

In the United States railroad employees who are involved in the movement of trains are governed by the Hours of Service Act. The legislation is related to similar regulations which apply to other modes of transportation, but with significantly different specific limitations. The Act, which is administered by the Federal Railroad Administration, covers "train employees" (49 U.S.C. § 21103), "signal employees" (49 U.S.C. § 21104) and "dispatching service employees." (49 U.S.C. § 21105), as defined by the statute (49 U.S.C. § 21101).

This act is in place and in effect to ensure said employees receive "sufficient periods of rest" to ensure that they can perform their jobs safely. The law also specifies how many hours employees may work, both continuously and with a period of off time (called swing time) which is differentiated as being too short to be considered a period of rest. The affected employees include Dispatchers, Conductors, Engineers and more.

"Outlaw" is a song written by Tim Kellett and Robin Taylor-Firth and performed by Olive on their 1996 album Extra Virgin. It was released as the follow-up to the group's number one single You're Not Alone. The single charted at number fourteen in the UK Singles Chart.

The lyric concerns a woman's discovery that her boyfriend has been sleeping with another man. The main chorus couplet - "Couldn't you have told me before? / I would have loved you so much more" - suggests that her problem is not so much that her boyfriend is gay or bisexual, but simply that he lied to her about himself, and that under other circumstances they could have been good friends.

Outlaw is an album by War, released on RCA Victor Records in 1982.

This was War's first album for RCA. Between this and the previous album on MCA, War released a single on LA Records, a company owned by their producer Jerry Goldstein: "Cinco de Mayo", which also appears on Outlaw, backed with "Don't Let No One Get You Down", an older track from Why Can't We Be Friends? (1975).

Alice Tweed Smith (vocals) had left the band since their previous album, reducing the group to eight members, although the cover only shows seven. Pat Rizzo isn't on cover picture. Assuming that composer credits indicate the lineup of each track (excluding producer Jerry Goldstein); on some tracks, Ron Hammon (drums) and Pat Rizzo (saxophone) are not credited .

Three more singles from the album were issued on RCA Victor: "You Got the Power" backed with "Cinco de Mayo", "Outlaw" backed with "I'm About Somebody", and "Just Because" backed with "The Jungle (medley)". Also, "Baby It's Cold Outside" (not the popular 1940s song by Frank Loesser) was issued as a promotional single for seasonal music radio programming. Therefore, every track on the album was also issued on a single, though some were probably edited.

The album was re-released on CD in 1995 with a different running order and the extended version of "Cinco de Mayo" added as a bonus track.

Outlaw is an American television series that was aired on the NBC network. The one-hour courtroom drama stars Jimmy Smits as a Supreme Court Justice, Cyrus Garza, who resigns from the bench and returns to private practice in an elite law firm where Claire Sax, love interest to Garza, is a powerful senior partner. As part of the deal, the firm has an ex–Supreme Court Justice on their staff of lawyers and Garza is allowed to pick his team and the cases he works.

The series premiered on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 (a day earlier in Canada), and began airing on Fridays beginning September 24. On October 11, 2010, Outlaw was announced as canceled by NBC and the remaining four episodes were moved to a Saturday time slot. The series finale aired on November 13, 2010.

Though the judgment of outlawry is obsolete, romanticised outlaws became stock characters in several fictional settings.

This was particularly so in the United States, where outlaws were popular subjects of newspaper coverage and stories in the 19th century, and 20th century fiction and Western movies. Thus, "outlaw" is still commonly used to mean those violating the law or, by extension, those living that lifestyle, whether actual criminals evading the law or those merely opposed to "law-and-order" notions of conformity and authority (such as the " outlaw country" music movement in the 1970s).

The colloquial sense of an outlaw as bandit or brigand is the subject of a monograph by British author Eric Hobsbawm:. Hobsbawm's book discusses the bandit as a symbol, and mediated idea, and many of the outlaws he refers to, such as Ned Kelly, Mr. Dick Turpin, and Billy the Kid, are also listed below.

Outlaw is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Arthur R. Outlaw (died 2004), twice mayor of Mobile, Alabama
• Bo Outlaw (born 1971), former National Basketball Association player
• David Outlaw (1806–1868), U.S. Congressman from North Carolina
• George Outlaw (1731–1825), U.S. Congressman from North Carolina; cousin of David Outlaw
• Jimmy Outlaw (1913–2006), Major League Baseball player
• John Outlaw (born 1945), former National Football League defensive back
• Nathan Outlaw (born 1978), English chef and restaurateur
• Travis Outlaw (born 1984), National Basketball Association player