Desertion
A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
The act of leaving or forsaking a service or duty, as service on board ship, or service in the army; the act of forsaking a person with whom one is legally bound to live, or for whom one is legally bound to provide, as a wife or husband, v. Malicious abandonment; Malicious desertion.