
[[Image:butchcassidy2.jpg|right|frame|Butch Cassidy, a famous outlaw]] An outlaw, a person living the lifestyle of outlawry, is most familiar to contemporary readers as a stock character in Western movies. The Western outlaw is typically a criminal who operates from a base in the wilderness, and makes periodic raids on civilized settlements. The stereotype owes a great deal to England folklore precedents, in the tales of Robin Hood and of gallant highwayman. But outlawry was once a term of art in the law, and one of the harshest judgments that could be pronounced on anyone's head. In common law, an outlaw was a person who had defied the laws of the realm, by such acts as ignoring a summons to court, or fleeing instead of appearing to plead when charged with a crime. In the earlier law of Anglo-Saxon England, outlawry was also declared when a person committed a homicide and could not pay the ''were'', the blood-money, due to the victim's kin. Outlawry also existed in other legal codes of the time, such as the ancient Norse and Iceland legal code. To be declared an outlaw was to suffer a form of civil death. The outlaw was debarred from all civilised society. No one was allowed to give him food, shelter, or any other sort of support; to do so was to commit the crime of ''couthutlaugh'', and to be in danger of the ban oneself. A person who encountered an outlaw was allowed, and indeed encouraged, to kill them; to do so was no murder. Because the outlaw has defied civil society, that society was quit of any obligations to the outlaw; outlaws had no civil rights, could not sue in any court on any cause of action, though they were themselves personally liable. In the context of criminal law, outlawry faded not so much by legal changes as by the greater population density of the country, which made it harder for wanted fugitives to evade capture; and by the international adoption of extradition pacts. In the civil context, outlawry became obsolescent in civil procedure by reforms that no longer required summoned defendants to appear and plead. Still, the possibility of being declared an outlaw for derelictions of civil law duty continued to exist in English law until 1879 and in Scots law until the late 1940s. ==Famous outlaws== *Western Outlaws ** Apache Kid ** Butch Cassidy ** Billy the Kid ** Jesse James ** Cole Younger ** List of Western Outlaws *Depression-era "Public Enemy" Outlaws ** John Dillinger ** Bonnie & Clyde ** Ma Barker *Vikings ** Erik the Red *Medieval ** Robin Hood - Legendary Medieval England outlaw ** William Wallace - Leader of the Scottish resistance to Edward I of England. **Rob Roy MacGregor - Scottish Chieftain. *Bandits ** Song Jiang - Historical Chinese bandit immortalised in the classic ''Water Margin'' ** Veerappan Indian bandit. ** Jovo Stanisavljevic Caruga - Serb in Kingdom of Yugoslavia ** Joco Udmanic - Serb in Yugoslavia *Australian Bushrangers: ** Ned Kelly - in Australia ---- ''The Outlaw'' is a 1943 Western movie about Billy the Kid that marked the début of Jane Russell; it was directed by Howard Hughes. The film also starred Walter Huston as Doc Holliday. The film is remembered mostly because Hughes invented the push-up brassiere for his new star Jane Russell to wear. The attention paid to her breast meant that the film had a running battle with censorship in several states, as well as with the Hays Office. Legal history Criminal law Stock characters
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[[Image:butchcassidy2.jpg|right|frame|Butch Cassidy, a famous outlaw]] An outlaw, a person living the lifestyle of outlawry, is most familiar to contemporary readers as a stock character in Western movies. The Western outlaw is typically a criminal who operates from a base in the wilderness, and makes periodic raids on civilized settlements. The stereotype owes a great deal to England folklore precedents, in the tales of Robin Hood and of gallant highwayman. But outlawry was once a term of art in the law, and one of the harshest judgments that could be pronounced on anyone's head. In common law, an outlaw was a person who had defied the laws of the realm, by such acts as ignoring a summons to court, or fleeing instead of appearing to plead when charged with a crime. In the earlier law of Anglo-Saxon England, outlawry was also declared when a person committed a homicide and could not pay the ''were'', the blood-money, due to the victim's kin. Outlawry also existed in other legal codes of the time, such as the ancient Norse and Iceland legal code. To be declared an outlaw was to suffer a form of civil death. The outlaw was debarred from all civilised society. No one was allowed to give him food, shelter, or any other sort of support; to do so was to commit the crime of ''couthutlaugh'', and to be in danger of the ban oneself. A person who encountered an outlaw was allowed, and indeed encouraged, to kill them; to do so was no murder. Because the outlaw has defied civil society, that society was quit of any obligations to the outlaw; outlaws had no civil rights, could not sue in any court on any cause of action, though they were themselves personally liable. In the context of criminal law, outlawry faded not so much by legal changes as by the greater population density of the country, which made it harder for wanted fugitives to evade capture; and by the international adoption of extradition pacts. In the civil context, outlawry became obsolescent in civil procedure by reforms that no longer required summoned defendants to appear and plead. Still, the possibility of being declared an outlaw for derelictions of civil law duty continued to exist in English law until 1879 and in Scots law until the late 1940s. ==Famous outlaws== *Western Outlaws ** Apache Kid ** Butch Cassidy ** Billy the Kid ** Jesse James ** Cole Younger ** List of Western Outlaws *Depression-era "Public Enemy" Outlaws ** John Dillinger ** Bonnie & Clyde ** Ma Barker *Vikings ** Erik the Red *Medieval ** Robin Hood - Legendary Medieval England outlaw ** William Wallace - Leader of the Scottish resistance to Edward I of England. **Rob Roy MacGregor - Scottish Chieftain. *Bandits ** Song Jiang - Historical Chinese bandit immortalised in the classic ''Water Margin'' ** Veerappan Indian bandit. ** Jovo Stanisavljevic Caruga - Serb in Kingdom of Yugoslavia ** Joco Udmanic - Serb in Yugoslavia *Australian Bushrangers: ** Ned Kelly - in Australia ---- ''The Outlaw'' is a 1943 Western movie about Billy the Kid that marked the début of Jane Russell; it was directed by Howard Hughes. The film also starred Walter Huston as Doc Holliday. The film is remembered mostly because Hughes invented the push-up brassiere for his new star Jane Russell to wear. The attention paid to her breast meant that the film had a running battle with censorship in several states, as well as with the Hays Office. Legal history Criminal law Stock characters
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