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Ned Kelly Outlawed : The Victorian Felons Apprehension Act 1878 / Stuart E. Dawson.

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Field name	Details
Author	Dawson, Stuart E., 1958- (author) (donor)
Title	Ned Kelly Outlawed : The Victorian Felons Apprehension Act 1878 / Stuart E. Dawson.
Publisher and/or associated date/s	2021.
Description	1 electronic document (24 pages) ; PDF.
Note	Article from: law&history, 8.1 (2021), pages 134-157.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Conditions of access	Available to Museum Staff only. Not available for inter-library lending.
Summary	Abstract: "While Ned Kelly is famously remembered as an outlaw, few know what the process of outlawry involved, or what it meant for those outlawed and any who aided them. Although the Victorian Felons Apprehension Act of 1878 is often represented as a statute hastily adapted from NSW legislation that allowed and encouraged anyone to kill an outlaw on sight with impunity, this is not correct. Outlawry drew on a long common law tradition, but its colonial form was unique in that unlike earlier outlawry, it did not constitute a criminal conviction. There were strict conditions on the circumstances under which an outlaw might be killed, the breach of which would constitute murder. This reflected a deep conviction by the drafters of the first outlawry Act that the summary slaying of an outlaw was not a furtherance of justice but an act of barbarity" --supplied by author.
Subjects	Kelly, Ned, -- 1855-1880 -- Legends
	Kelly, Ned, -- 1855-1880
	Bushrangers -- Victoria
	Law enforcement -- Australia -- History
	Outlaws
Call number	Electronic document (PDF)

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10005663	Electronic document (PDF)	Serials Collection		. Electronic access (restrictions may apply) .