, a famous Western American outlaw]]An outlaw is a person living the lifestyle of outlawry, meaning literally "outside the law". In the common law of England, a judgment declaring someone an outlaw, known as a "Writ of Outlawry", was one of the harshest penalties in the legal system, since the outlaw could not use the legal system to protect himself if needed, such as from mob justice.Social Banditry best describes the "outlaw." Social Banditry was a paradigm first described by Eric Hobsbawn"Ba