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UTLAGATUS

In old English law. An outlawed person; an outlaw. Utlagatns est quasi extra legem positns. Caput gerit lnpinum. 7 Coke, 14. An outlaw is, as it were, put out of the protection of the law. He bears the head of a wolf. Utlagatus pro contumacla et fuga, non propter hoc convietus est do facto principall. Fleta. One Who is outlawed for contumacy and flight is not on that account convicted of the principal fact.

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