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Outlaw (other)
An outlaw is a person who is declared as no longer protected by the law. Outlaw or Outlawed may also refer to: Entertainment Films and television * ''The Outlaw'', a 1943 western directed by Howard Hughes * ''Útlaginn'' (''The Outlaw''), a 1981 Icelandic film * Outlaw (1999 film), ''Outlaw'' (1999 film), an Italian film * Outlaw (2007 film), ''Outlaw'' (2007 film), an action-crime-drama film written and directed by Nick Love * Outlawed (1921 film), ''Outlawed'' (1921 film), an American film directed by Alan Lang * Outlawed (1929 film), ''Outlawed'' (1929 film), an American film directed by Eugene Forde * The Outlaw (1939 film), ''The Outlaw'' (1939 film), an Argentine film * The Outlaw (1953 film), ''The Outlaw'' (1953 film), an Iranian film * The Outlaw (2010 film), ''The Outlaw'' (2010 film), a Spanish-language film about Lope de Vega * Outlaw (TV series), ''Outlaw'' (TV series), an American television courtroom drama (2010) * Outlaw (TV network), Outlaw, an American televisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outlaw
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 In pre-modern societies, all legal protection was withdrawn from the criminal, so that anyone was legally empowered to persecute or kill them.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 from Roman law, as the status of ''homo sacer'', and persisted throughout the Middle Ages. A secondary meaning of outlaw is a person who systematically avoids capture by evasion and violence to deter capture. These meanings are related and overlapping but not necessarily identical. A fugitive who is declared outside protection of law in one jurisdiction but who receives asylum and lives openly and obedient to local laws in another jurisdiction is an outlaw in the first meaning but not t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
