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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The act or process of outlawing or the state of having been outlawed.
  2. n. Defiance of the law.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The putting of a person out of the protection of law by legal means; also, the process by which one is deprived of that protection, or the condition of one so deprived: a punishment formerly imposed on one who, when called into court, contemptuously refused to appear, or evaded justice by disappearing. In the earliest times outlawry seems to have implied exclusion from all the protections and remedies with which the law guarded lawful men, but by successive ameliorations it was reduced in effect to the rule that it incapacitated a person for prosecuting actions for his own benefit, though he might still defend himself. In capital cases, as treason or felony, failure to appear was a sufficient evidence of guilt, and process of outlawry thereon entailed forfeiture of his personal estate. Fugitation is a term of similar meaning in Scots law.
  2. n. The condition of a debt or other cause of action when by reason of lapse of time it can no longer sustain an action. Such a debt still subsists for some other purposes — such, for instance, as enabling the creditor to retain a pledge if he holds a security.

Wiktionary

  1. n. law, UK, Anglo-Saxon A declaration that an individual cannot benefit from the protection of law in a jurisdiction.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. 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.
  2. n. The state of being an outlaw.
  3. n. Defiance of the law; habitual criminality.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of the law

Etymologies

  1. outlaw +‎ -ry (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English outlauerie, from Anglo-Norman utlagerie and from Medieval Latin ūtlagāria, both from Old English ūtlaga, outlaw; see outlaw. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. illegality

same context (23)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. excommunication
  2. banishment
  3. proscription
  4. spoliation
  1. forfeiture
  2. confiscation
  3. inconsistence
  4. forfeitures
  1. ejectment
  2. manslaughter
  3. piracy
  4. mulct
  1. sequestration
  2. attainder
  3. interdict
  4. dethronement
  1. money-maker
  2. noncompliance
  3. brigandage
  4. housebreaking
  1. nullity
  2. cutting-off
  3. escheat

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. inlawry
  2. outlaw
  3. exigent
  1. inlaw
  2. utlegation
  3. exigenter
  1. proscription
  2. attainder
  3. bill of attainder
  1. attaint
  2. fugitate
  3. utlagare
  1. utlary
  2. atimy
  3. ban
  1. proclamation
  2. reversal

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  • bilby I move that the bill be read a second time. Feb 12, 2009

  • kewpid In the first reading at least, the title of the Bill is read aloud. Feb 12, 2009

  • bilby Interesting in that in Australia the term reading a bill means to debate/examine/consider a piece of proposed legislation. No one actually stands on the floor of parliament and reads the bill aloud. Feb 12, 2009

  • qroqqa The reason for the reading of the bill is that Parliament is opened by the Monarch seated in full state in the House of Lords. The Usher of the Black Rod is sent to the House of Commons to desire the members to attend the royal speech. The Commons duly, dutifully troop in, hear their monarch opening Parliament, and then return to their own chamber.

    They then introduce some House of Commons business: the reading of a bill for preventing clandestine outlawries. It is never proceeded with further; but having shown their independence by attending to their own concerns, only then do the Commons debate in reply to the royal speech.

    See for example Hansard of 22 November 2003. Feb 12, 2009

  • vanishedone By tradition each new U.K. parliamentary session begins with a reading of the Outlawries Bill in the House of Commons before the legislators start legislating. Oct 22, 2007

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