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Outlawry (or proscription): exclusion of a lawbreaker from the 
community in the Middle Ages (after which anyone could kill the 
proscribed party without punishment). Outlawry covered the district 
under jurisdiction of a court, a territory or an entire empire. The 
proscription of Henry the Lion in 1180, through which Styria became a 
duchy, was important for Austria. In 1711 Karl VI had to promise 
to request permission from the Reichstag (Imperial Diet) to impose 
outlawry as a sentence, which practically amounted to its abolition. 
In this way the outlawry proceedings brought against Friedrich II of 
Prussia by Maria Theresia failed in 1756.


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