outlawry

n. state or position of being an outlaw; disregard or disobedience of the law

For other senses of this word, see outlaw (disambiguation). An outlaw is a person living the lifestyle of outlawry, meaning literally "outside the law". In the common law of England, a judgment declaring someone an outlaw was one of the harshest penalties in the legal system, since the outlaw could not use the legal system to protect himself if needed, such as from mob justice.
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Noun
1. illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of the law
(synonym) lawlessness
(hypernym) illegality
(derivation) outlaw, criminalize, criminalise, illegalize, illegalise

(n.)
The state of being an outlaw.
  

(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.
  

OUTLAW - Engl. law. One who is put out of the protection or aid of the law.

OUTLAWRY - Engl. law. The act of being put out of the protection of the law by process regularly sued out against a person who is in contempt in refusing to become amenable to the court having jurisdiction. The proceedings themselves are also called the outlawry.

Outlawry may take place in criminal or in civil cases.

In the United States, outlawry in civil cases is unknown, and if there are any cases of outlawry in criminal cases they are very rare.
   

This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.