Talk:Outlaw

Civil Outlawry Section
The civil outlawry section contains this quote: "Since [civil outlawry has become obselete], failure to find the defendant and serve process is usually interpreted in favour of the defendant, and harsh penalties for mere nonappearance (merely presumed flight to escape justice) no longer apply" [emphasis added]. I follow the point that the defendant does not get in as much trouble as in the past for not appearing at a divil suit but I hardly believe that it help's the defendant's case to not appear. Should the quote not convey that the failure of the defendant to appear in a civil matter is usually interpreted in favor of the plaintiff. It still looks bad for a defendant to not show up to court even if the defendant isn't labeled an outlaw like they would have been in times past. --Rotellam1 (talk) 20:18, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

I think what they were getting at is the fact that plaintiffs have the burden of serving the defendant with notice, and they have to prove to the court that they did. If the person evades notice without making it obvious to the court that they are doing so, then yes, it could work to their advantage. But that is pretty difficult these days. And the risk is that the plaintiff will tell the court you are aware of the lawsuit and evading them, and they can get a default judgment in their favor and win their suit automatically. So you don't become a civil outlaw and lose your property rights, you just lose your court case. This section should definitely be reworked, although I'm not sure of the best way to do so. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.183.222.13 (talk) 06:53, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Prior to the Nuremberg Trials
Currently the article says:

I think that this is incorrect what was proposed was an act of attainder as was used by Parliament against Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford in 1641. Men like Strafford were not outlawed instead a special act of Parliament was passed to have them executed without a need for a trial to find the guilty of a crime, so their executions were specially sanctioned within the law. Americans are more familiar with impeachment which is in some ways similar. Nasty if there is no trial to establish guilt, but not outside the law! -- PBS (talk) 18:09, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

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Proposed merge with Civil death
Civil death appears to cover the same topic as outlaw, but not as well. The two topics do not seem sufficiently distinct to merit separate articles. LukeSurlt c 17:34, 16 November 2015 (UTC)


 * That is mostly because civil death is not described very well. It meant e.g. that all your goods were divided under your heirs, because you were 'dead' now and your wife was no longer your wife, because her husband was 'dead'. You could not make any contracts either. But there was no price on your head, as you were already dead. Jcwf (talk) 17:40, 27 December 2015 (UTC)


 * No, it's not the same. Outlaw is from Germanic Law and Common Law (G.B, U.S), Civil death is from Roman Law (Continental Europe). Priests in some countries were declared as "civil dead". This gave inheritance rights for their families. See Mort_civile in French Wikipedia --GM83 (talk) 21:42, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

Islam
As I understand it, in Islamic law any person who is not a Muslim is an outlaw (because God requires all people to convert to Islam). Thus robbery, rape, and murder of a kafir is simply not a crime. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paul Murray (talk • contribs) 02:23, 2 November 2016 (UTC)