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Evade

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Definitions from Case Law

From 325 U.S. 478 - Keegan v. United States · 1945Most cited · 139 citing opinions

To escape; to slip away; to take refuge in evasion; to use artifice in avoidance." "Resist" is defined as, "To withstand; to oppose by physical, mental, or moral power." "Refuse" is defined as, "To decline to accept; to reject; to decline to submit to or undergo." Now the surest way of rendering oneself incapable of evading military service, of slipping away or escaping it, is to register.

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