Beyond The Pale is generally applied to a person who has committed an unspeakable act or behaves immorally. A “Pale”, historically, is an area around a town or a city and which was subject to a specific jurisdiction and was ruled by the king or one of his lords. Areas outside the Pale were usually regarded as lawless and uncivilized, so peasants of medieval England, Ireland and France (the English-held towns of Calais and Dublin established their own Pales) were viewed by town-folk as from “Beyond the Pale”.