She went on, “Cheyenne, far from being a wild town of border outlawry, is a center of refined elegance and fashion.”

He knew what confronted him if he attacked these—outlawry, excommunication from official society, the loss of his whole social position.

In those same years Canute decreed in England that whoever committed a deed of outlawry should forfeit his lands to the King.

He appended his signature to the decree of outlawry launched in 1815 by the European powers against Napoleon.

A prince, town, or community, that incurred the sentence of outlawry, lost thereby at once all liberties, privileges, and graces.