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Fugitive Offender

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In English law

One who, being accused of having committed a crime ip one part of the British empire, has left there, and gone to another part thereof.

See Fugitive from Justice.