Expatriation vs Outlawry - What's the difference?
expatriation | outlawry | Related terms |
voluntary migration from one's native land to another
forced expulsion of from one's native land to another
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(legal, historical) A declaration that an individual cannot benefit from the protection of law in a jurisdiction.
The action characteristic of an outlaw; lawlessness.
*1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 134:
*:Through this ‘passing-out ceremony’ the apprentice became both proven in reliability and bound, Faust-like, to the rebel cause by his act of outlawry .