Outlaw

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Definition of Outlaw

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[Fact 2]: In the earlier law of Anglo-Saxon England, outlawry was also declared when a person committed a homicide and could not pay the weregild, the blood-money, that was due to the victim's kin.The term referred to the formal procedure of declaring someone an outlaw, i.e.

[Fact 3]: His act of helping a poor peasant's daughter to get married led to a famous folk take which is still recited every year on the festival of Lohri by Punjabis.

Veerappan, South India's most famous bandit, Elephant poacher, sandalwood smuggler

Phoolan Devi – one of India's most famous dacoits .Indian bandits kill 13 villagers, BBC News, October 29, 2004

Shiv Kumar Patel – led one of the few remaining bands of outlaws that have roamed central India for centuries.Indian bandit slain in gun battle with police, International Herald Tribune, July 23, 2007

Hashshashin – militant Ismaili Muslim sect, active from the 8th to the 14th centuries.

Thuggee – Indian network of secret fraternities engaged in murdering and robbing travellers.[http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/hinduism/history/thugs.shtml BBC – Religion & Ethics – Origins of the word 'thug']There have been many instances in military and/or political conflicts throughout History whereby one side declares the other as being "illegal", as was the case with emperor Napoleon whom the Congress of Vienna, in 13 March 1815, declared to be "outside the law".In modern times, the government of the First Spanish Republic, unable to reduce the Cantonalist rebellion centered in Cartagena, Spain, declared the Cartagena fleet to be "piratic", which allowed any nation to prey on it.Taking the opposite road, some outlaws became political leaders, such as Ethiopia's Kassa Hailu who became Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia.

Outlaw motorcycle club

Pirate

Robber baron