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Fugitive

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

[from Lat. fugitivus.] One who, after committing an offence, flees from justice, that is, takes to flight in order to escape punishment.

Constit.

U. States, Art. IV. Sect. II. 1 Kent's Com. 36-38, and notes.

2 Id. 32, note.

See U. S. Digest & Supplement, Fugitives from justice. A slave who has escaped from his master. 2 Kent's Com. 32, and notes.

1 Id. 404, note.

See Fugitivus.

See Fugitivus.