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What is an outlawry?

What is an outlawry? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (law, historical) A declaration that an individual cannot benefit from the protection of law in a jurisdiction. [from 14th c.]
  2. The state of being an outlaw; lawlessness. [from 19th c.]
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That the prince was the head and heart of the rebellion was recognized by Philip II in 1580, when he put him under the ban of outlawry.
It is actually not such an exercise in glorious outlawry as all that.
From hunted sense of unmerited outlawry I have passed to that of 'ermine' function.
For many peasants, the double burden of taxation and war led either to outlawry or to the one available source of protection, a powerful local individual.
The only person that would commit such a deed would be a desperate criminal, accustomed to a life of outlawry.
The price of contumacy was outlawry, and decapitation between the two columns.

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