And they called him a wolf in hallowed places, and he could no longer stay at home with his father.
—Völsunga saga, chapter 1
[Y]ou are banished to the Outlands. No one is to show you any kindness or ever speak a word to you. You will have not a friend in the world.
—The White Queen, Alice in Wonderland (2010)
By thus breaking the convention which had established him in the island of Elba, Bonaparte destroys the only legal title on which his existence depended, and by appearing again in France, with projects of confusion and disorder, he has deprived himself of the protection of the law, and has manifested to the universe that there can be neither peace nor truce with him.
The powers consequently declare, that Napoléon Bonaparte has placed himself without the pale of civil and social relations; and that, as an enemy and disturber of the tranquillity of the world, he has rendered himself liable to public vengeance.
The powers consequently declare, that Napoléon Bonaparte has placed himself without the pale of civil and social relations; and that, as an enemy and disturber of the tranquillity of the world, he has rendered himself liable to public vengeance.
—Declaration at the Congress of Vienna
(13 March 1815)
(13 March 1815)The Ban of the Empire is laid upon you — your Castle given up to plunder, and your body to be devoured by birds and beasts of prey!
—Selbiz, Götz von Berlichingen
I declare him, from this day forth, to be AN OUTLAAAAW! To be hunted all the days of his life! Until his corpse, unburied, is carrion for foxes and crows!
—King John, Robin Hood (2010)
If the person so charged shall not surrender himself for trial pursuant to such summons or shall not be apprehended or being apprehended or having surrendered shall escape so that he shall not be in custody on the day specified in such summons he shall upon proof thereof by affidavit to the satisfaction of any judge of the Supreme Court and of the due publication of the summons be deemed outlawed and shall and may thereupon be adjudged and declared to be an outlaw accordingly by such judge by a declaration to that effect under his hand filed in the said Court of Record. And if after proclamation by the Governor with the advice of the Executive Council of the fact as such adjudication shall have been published in the “Government Gazette” and in one or more Melbourne and one or more country newspapers such outlaw shall afterwards be found at large armed or there being reasonable ground to believe that he is armed it shall be lawful for any of Her Majesty’s subjects whether a constable or not and without being accountable for the using of any deadly weapon in aid of such apprehension whether its use be preceded by a demand of surrender or not to apprehend or take such outlaw dead or alive.
—Felons Apprehension Act 1865 of New South Wales
of New South WalesThe CIA has a hit list, thirty-five people world-wide that agents are allowed to kill. Thirty-five out of six billion. You're one of them, which means when I kill you I won't even be breaking the law.
—Sydney Bristow to her ex-boss Arvin Sloane, Alias
