Outlaw

Outlaw Outlaw Person declared as outside the protection of the law This article is about the legal concept. For other uses, see Outlaw (disambiguation). "Outlawed" redirects here. For other uses, see Outlawed (disambiguation). An outlaw, in its original and legal meaning, is a person declared as outside the protection of the law. In pre-modern societies, all legal protection was withdrawn from the criminal, so anyone was legally empowered to persecute or kill them.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…

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