Definition of "outlawry"

outlawry

/ˈaʊtlɔːɹi/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural outlawries
1. (law, historical) A declaration that an individual cannot benefit from the protection of law in a jurisdiction.
  Quotations
  Notwithstanding any disposition made or to be made , by virtue or colour of any attainder , outlawry , fugacy , or other forfeiture / 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Enchantress, pages 42–23:The palace was confiscated, and its rich furniture sold; the Marchese di Montefiore was summoned to appear on a charge of sorcery; he came not to answer the accusation, and sentence of outlawry was passed against him.
  c. 1649, John Milton, Observations upon the Articles of Peace with the Irish Rebels […]
2. The state of being an outlaw; lawlessness.
  Quotations
  Through this ‘passing-out ceremony’ the apprentice became both proven in reliability and bound, Faust-like, to the rebel cause by his act of outlawry.
  1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 134