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The answer OUTLAW has 159 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of outlaw in various dictionaries:
noun - someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
verb - declare illegal
adj - contrary to or forbidden by law
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| One taking the stage? |
| Ban |
| Jesse James, for one |
| Face on an old wanted poster |
| One who is wanted |
| Renegade |
| Wanted felon |
| Bad guy in westerns |
| Jesse James, e.g. |
| Bonnie or Clyde |
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| It can be a fugitive, a criminal or a social nonconformist; Josey Wales was one |
| It can be a type of criminal or an anti-Nashville country music movement led by Waylon Jennings |
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| A rebel a nonconformist: a social outlaw. |
| A person excluded from normal legal protection and rights. |
| A wild or vicious horse or other animal. |
| To declare illegal: outlawed the sale of firearms. |
| To place under a ban prohibit: outlawed smoking in the house. |
| To deprive (one declared to be a criminal fugitive) of the protection of the law. |
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In historical legal systems, an outlaw is declared as outside the protection of the law. In pre-modern societies, the criminal is withdrawn all legal protection, so that anyone is legally empowered to persecute or kill them.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. * In the common law of England, a "Writ of Outlawry" made the pronouncement Caput lupinum ("Let his be a wolf's head", literally "May he bear a wolfish head") with respect to its subject, using "head" to refer to the entire person (cf. "per capita") and equating that person with a wolf ( warg ) in the eyes of the law : Not only was the subject deprived of all legal rights of the law being outside the "law", but others could kill |