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A person so far out of the protection of the law, that if he were murdered, no geld, or fine, should be paid, or composition made by him that killed him.

A person so far out of the protection of the law, that if he were murdered, no geld, or fine, should be paid, or composition made by him that killed him.

In Saxon law. An outlaw; a person whose murder required no composition to be made, or tocregcld to be paid, by his slayer.