3. (Law) (a) To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which
one may enforce if he chooses. (b) (O. Eng. Law) To desert; to abandon.
Burrill.
The term was applied to a woman, in the same sense as outlaw to a man.
A woman could not be outlawed, in the proper sense of the word,
because, according to Bracton, she was never in law, that is, in a
frankpledge or decennary; but she might be waived, and held as
abandoned. Burrill.