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Outlawry

the act of outlawing; the state of being being outlawed; the putting a man out of the protection of the law, or the process by which a man is deprived of that protection, as a punishment for contempt in refusing to appear when called into court. Formerly any one might kill an outlawed person without incurring any penalty, but now the wanton killing of an outlaw is considered as murder. In England criminal lia" (1867), "Under Two Flags" (the outlawry has been in abeyance since best, 1868), "Puck" (1869), "Folle 1859; civil outlawry was abolished in Farine" (1871), "Pascarel" (1873), 1879. In the U. S. civil outlawry is un- "Ariadne" (1877), "Moths" (1880), "Princess Napraxine" (1884), "Two Offenders" (1894), "A Story of Venice" (1895), "Town" (1897), "La Strega" (1899), etc. She died Jan. 25, 1908.

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