outlawry

Defiance of the law; unlawful behavior.

The act or process of outlawing or the state of having been outlawed.

A proceeding, doctrine, or condition in which one convicted of a crime is deprived of the protection of the law.

The putting of a person out of the protection of law by legal means; also, the process by which one is deprived of that protection, or the condition of one so deprived: a punishment formerly imposed on one who, when called into court, contemptuously refused to appear, or evaded justice by disappearing.

The condition of a debt or other cause of action when by reason of lapse of time it can no longer sustain an action. Such a debt still subsists for some other purposes — such, for instance, as enabling the creditor to retain a pledge if he holds a security.

The act of outlawing; the putting a man out of the protection of law, or the process by which a man (as an absconding criminal) is deprived of that protection.

The state of being an outlaw.

Defiance of the law; habitual criminality.

A declaration that an individual cannot benefit from the protection of law in a jurisdiction.

illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of the law