1) Banditry 1) Freebootery 
Brigandage refers to the life and practice of brigands: highway robbery and plunder, and a brigand is a person who usually lives in a gang and lives by pillage and robbery. == Origin of the word == The brigand is supposed to derive his name from the Old French brigand, which is a form of the Italian brigante, an irregular or partisan soldier. Ther...
• (n.) Life and practice of brigands; highway robbery; plunder.
(from the article `Italy`) ...was most acute and widespread in rural areas, where peasant families had gained nothing from the partial division of large feudal estates. Many ...
Brig'and·age (-aj) noun [ French brigandage .] Life and practice of brigands; highway robbery; plunder.