Proscription

thumb|right|Newton Knight (1837–1922) was an anti-Confederate rebel soldier and founder of the "Free State of Jones" in the area in and around [[Jones County, Mississippi, at the height of the American Civil War.]]

thumb|The Proscribed Royalist, 1651, painted by [[John Everett Millais c. 1853, in which a Puritan woman hides a fleeing Royalist proscript in the hollow of a tree]]

legal term for criminals beyond any legal protection