Abscond
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[from Lat. abscmdere, to hide away.] To hide or conceal one's self, to keep close; to go away privately. Applied to a debtor who clandestinely. withdraws from the place of his residence or business, or who secretes himself to avoid legal process.
2 Kent's Com. 401.
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