Fugitive Slave
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Bouvier (1839)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
One who, held in bondage, flees from his master's power.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
One who, held in bondage, flees from his master's power.
Defined under Fugitive in Black's Law Dictionary.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
One who, held in bondage, flees from his master’s power.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
John Bouvier · 1839
is one who has escaped from the service of his master. The constitution of the United States, art. 4, s. 2, 3, directs that “no person held to service or labour in one state, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any laws or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labour, but shall be delivered up, on claim of the party to whom such service or labour may be due.” In practice summary ministerial proceedings are adopted, and not the ordinary course of judicial investigations, to ascertain whether the claim of ownership be established beyond al! legal controversy. In some states strenuous but unsuccessful efforts have been made to procure the supposed slave atrial by jury. Vide generally, 3 Story, Com. on Const. § 1804-1806; Serg. on Const. ch. 31, p. 387; 9 Jobn. R. 62; 5Serg. & Rawle, 62; 2 Pick. R. 11; 2 Serg. & Rawle, 306; 3 Ib.4; 1 Wash. C. C. R. 500.