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/fjˈudʒətɪv frəm dʒˈəstəs/ Listen

noun

Fugitive n.

One who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service, duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice.

Something hard to be caught or detained. "Or Catch that airy fugitive called wit."

Fugitive from justice (Law), one who, having committed a crime in one jurisdiction, flees or escapes into another to avoid punishment.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fugitive from justice" Quotes from Famous Books

... for a square deal. I haven't done anything intentionally to make me a fugitive from justice. ...

— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day

... take the hazard of a trial, but to make her escape and go to Athens, and offered to give her an opportunity to do so. He intended, it was said, if she made the attempt, to intercept and slay her on the way as a fugitive from justice. She refused to accede to this proposal, suspecting, perhaps, Cassander's treachery in making it. Cassander then sent a band of two hundred soldiers to put ...

— Pyrrhus - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott

... that the Maroons should be "forever hereafter in a perfect state of freedom and liberty"; ceded to them fifteen hundred acres of land; and stipulated only that they should keep the peace, should harbor no fugitive from justice or from slavery, and should allow two white commissioners to remain among them, simply to represent ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 5, No. 28, February, 1860 • Various

... and act in concert with him. A letter delivered at the post office to the stranger, it was ascertained, came by way of New Orleans. A requisition from the governor of New York to deliver up, as a fugitive from justice, the person of Lee Lyon, was next obtained. All things were thus brought into readiness for action, the purpose being to keep two police officers ever on the track of his accomplice, let him go where he would. Inquiries ...

— The Good Time Coming • T. S. Arthur

... feel what it is to be disappointed. You love Charles Hadley. Ah, I knew you did! but mark me, you shall never wed him—never! I would sooner imbrue my hands in his blood, than that you should! But he is a guilty culprit, a wandering fugitive from justice, and will never ...

— Eveline Mandeville - The Horse Thief Rival • Alvin Addison