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A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

ov. To receive clandestinely and without lawful authority a person for the purpose of so concealing him that another having a right to the lawful custody of such person shall be ileprived of thesame. 65 How. 215, 227. <A distinction has been taken, in some decisions, between “harbor” and “conceal.” A person may be convicted of hurboring a slave, although he may not have concealed her.

24 Ala. 71.