Outlaw
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An outlaw is a person living the lifestyle of outlawry, meaning literally "outside the law." In the common law of England, a judgment declaring someone an outlaw was one of the harshest penalties in the legal system, since the outlaw could not use the legal system to protect them if needed, e.g. from mob justice. However, romanticised outlaws became stock characters in several fictional settings, particularly in Western movies.
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See also
- American Old West
- Vigilante
- Pirate
- Buccaneer
- Gangster
- Hajduk
- Highwayman
- Brigandage
- Thuggee cult
- Outlaw motorcycle club
- Shanlin
- Shifta
- Social bandits, a term invented by Eric Hobsbawm
- Honghuzi ("red beards")
- Thug
- Dacoit
- Klepht
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