A request by our producer Dave C, we explore how totally on your own you were in Medieval England when the court declared you an outlaw. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Hey, and welcome to the short stuff. I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too, sitting in for Dave. And this is a very special short stuff, Chuck, because Dave requested this topic so long ago that I don't even remember when he did.
Yeah. Every once in a while, a colleague will drum up the nerve to approach us very sheepishly with head bowed, say, what do you guys think about this idea? And Josh will wave them away and say, it shall be on the list in seven years time. Yes. Or so.
Right. Give or take seven more years.
We shall do outlawry.
And we are finally. So this one's for you, Dave. And it's a good idea, too, because most people think of outlaws as a specific, you know, like. Like Johnny Cash. Yes, exactly. A lot of people think of Johnny Cash when they think outlaw, don't they? Yeah. Outlaw country music. It's a thing. But this turns out to have been an actual legal standing. Yes. That could be applied to people.
That was not a pleasant thing to have applied to you. And it basically meant that, buddy, you're on your own. It was it was applied at least in a lot of cases to fugitives. But like we think of fugitives today is like people who the U.S. Marshal Service goes and gets like we talked about in Operation Flagship. That kind of falls under the same rubric.
But this was a fugitive in that like they were summoned to court. They decided not to come to court. And after a certain procedure, they were declared outlaws and that that meant like the law no longer applies to them. All the protections that are afforded to you are gone. And it does seem a little harsh, I have to say, for just failing to appear in court.
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