The word "outlawry" is usable in written English and is well written
It can be used in contexts discussing the state of being an outlaw or the act of declaring someone an outlaw. Example: "The outlawry of the bandits led to a significant increase in law enforcement efforts in the region." Alternatives include "outlaw status" or "criminal status."
The reason for this swirl of maritime outlawry can be found on the nearest shore, in Somalia.Until the world's most comprehensively failed state acquires the barest modicum of order and government, the seas beside it will be a paradise for pirates and a menace to passengers, crew and cargo, even for ships sailing 300 miles offshore.
Before the 10th century, the codes often merely presented lists of compositions money paid to an injured party or his family but by the 10th century a new penal system had evolved based on outlawry (declaring a criminal an outlaw), confiscation, and corporal and capital punishment.
lawyer who originated and publicized the "outlawry of war" movement in the United States.
Prodded into action by vocal American proponents of the "outlawry of war" movement, he succeeded in broadening the agreement to include 62 nations, among them all the major powers.
In civil proceedings outlawry was formally abolished in England in 1879.
By refusing to put the vote of outlawry, for which the majority of the council clamoured, by his opportune closing of the sitting, and by appealing to the soldiers outside to disperse "the representatives of the dagger," Lucien turned the scale in favour of his brother.
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.
At the end of the war the remnants of Quantrill's gang turned to undisguised outlawry, becoming notorious as the gangs led by the Younger brothers and by Jesse and Frank James.
The support of Earl Leofric and Earl Siward enabled Edward to secure the outlawry of Godwine and his sons; and William of Normandy paid Edward a visit during which Edward may have promised William succession to the English throne, although this Norman claim may have been mere propaganda.
The U.S. secretary of state, Frank B. Kellogg, prodded by the American "outlawry of war" movement and supported by those who were disappointed at the failure of the United States to join the League of Nations, proposed that the pact be converted into a general multilateral treaty, which the French accepted.
At the end of April he gave himself up to the authorities, and early in June his outlawry was reversed on a technical point.
