outlawry

proscription

Formal ban or condemnation

• attainderLegal status extinction
• felonySerious criminal offense
• convictionFirmly held belief

indictment · warrant · bounty · wanted poster · sentence · forfeiture · confiscation · criminalization · prohibition · death sentence

banishment

Forced removal from place

• exileBanishment from homeland
• expulsionForced permanent removal
• ostracismBanishment from a group

proscribed · persona non grata · excommunication · deportation · pariah · statelessness · dispossession · blacklisted · cast out · shunned

manhunt

Search for a suspect

• pursuitAct of chasing something
• hideoutSecret place of refuge
• on the runActively avoiding capture

evading · wanted · bounty hunter · escape · chase · tracker · evasion · hunted · clandestine · incognito

frontier

Edge of settlement

• sheriffCounty's chief officer
• bounty hunterProfessional fugitive capturer
• saloonDrinking establishment, often frontier

cowboy · stagecoach · territory · posse · revolver · six-shooter · gunslinger · marshal · wanted poster · holdup

highwayman

Mounted thief targeting travelers

• brigandArmed robber, often rural
• marauderOne who raids for loot
• desperadoBold, reckless outlaw

bandit · rustler · bushranger · pirate · smuggler · poacher · cattle rustler · road agent · freebooter · plunderer

insurgent

One who revolts

• rebelAuthority defier
• dissidentOpposer of established systems
• revolutionarySeeking fundamental systemic change

guerrilla · resistance · subversive · mutineer · insurrectionist · freedom fighter · partisan · uprising · sedition · defiance

• VikingsViking, longships, longship, raiding, Norse settlers
• feudal punishmenthanging, flogging, whipping, pillory, dungeon
• historical crimestreason, heresy, blasphemy, witchcraft, piracy
• historical lawattainder, Justinian Code, Roman law, curtesy, Napoleonic Code
• lawlessnessanarchy, chaos, disorder, lawbreaking, crime
• medieval justicetrial by combat, trial by ordeal, trial by fire, trial by jury, ordeal