Outlaw
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outlaw-181-16900754
title:
Outlaw
text:
An outlaw, in its original and legal meaning, is a person declared as outside the protection of the law. In pre-modern societies, all legal protection was withdrawn from the criminal, so anyone was legally empowered to persecute or kill them. Outlawry was thus one of the harshest penalties in the legal system. In early Germanic law, the death penalty is conspicuously absent, and outlawing is the most extreme punishment, presumably amounting to a death sentence in practice. The concept is known f
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Person declared as outside the protection of the law
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaw
date created:
2003-07-13T06:45:31Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T04:31:38Z
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