Crossword clues for outlawry
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outlawry \Out"law`ry\, n.; pl. Outlawries.
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.
The state of being an outlaw.
Defiance of the law; habitual criminality.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Anglo-French utlagerie, a hybrid from Old English utlaga (see outlaw (n.)) + -ary.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context legal historical English) A declaration that an individual cannot benefit from the protection of law in a jurisdiction. (from 14th c.) 2 The action characteristic of an outlaw; lawlessness. (from 19th c.)
WordNet
n. illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of the law [syn: lawlessness]
Usage examples of "outlawry".
Other lithographic placards contained in two parallel columns the decree of deposition drawn up by the Right at the Mairie of the Tenth Arrondissement, and the decree of outlawry voted by the Left.
All the persons comprised in this and the forgoing article were indulged with a general pardon of all attainders, outlawries, treasons, misprisons of treason, premunires, felonies, trespasses, and other crimes and misdemeanors whatsoever, committed since the beginning of the reign of James II.
Royal Khagan, he would not go back to outlawry, the best fate he could expect from failure.
Other than the change from Spanish priests to Mexican priests and the resulting outlawry of the Penitente sect of Catholicism, New Mexico hardly noticed the change from Spanish to Mexican governors.
There were many such, for the Sawtooth, powerful and stern against outlawry, tolerated no pilfering from their thousands.
The decree of deposition taken up and counter-signed by us added weight to this outlawry, and completed the revolutionary act by the legal act.
I had feared that the male black might have resolved to return to his adventurous life of outlawry after leaving the employment of Belknap-Jackson, but I found him peacefully inclined and entirely willing to accept service with me, while his wife, upon whom I would depend for much of the actual cooking, was wholly enthusiastic, admiring especially my colour-scheme of reds.
The Jefferson who denounced bills of attainder and outlawry when he prepared a draft for the Virginia constitution in 1783, five years earlier had declared it lawful for any person to pursue and slay one Josiah Philips, on a mere supposition of guilt.
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.
A knot of riders had just departed from the city's north gate, an unmarked grey banner announcing their outlawry for all to see as they slowly rode across the bare killing ground towards Brood's encampment.