Outlawry
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In English 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.
3 Bl. Comm. 283; Co. Litt. 128; 4 Bouv. Inst, note 4196.
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. Dane, Abr. c.
193a, 34. See Bac. Abr. "Abatement" (B), "Outlawry;" Gilb. Hist. 196, 197; 2 Va. Cas. 244; 2 Dall. (Pa.) 92.