Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Fugitive
1. A person who flees or escapes; a refugee. 2. A criminal suspect who flees, evades, or escapes arrest, prosecution, or imprisonment, esp. by fleeing the jurisdiction or by hiding. - Also termed (in sense 2) fugitive from justice.
Fugitive Felon Act
A federal statute that makes it a felony to flee across state lines to avoid state-felony prosecution or confinement, or to avoid giving testimony in a state-felony case. 18 USCA ยง 1073.
fugitive from justice
See FUGITIVE.
fugitive warrant
A warrant that authorizes law-enforcement officers to take into custody a person who has fled from one state to another to avoid prosecution or punishment.
fugitive's goods
Hist. The goods that a person forfeited as a result of fleeing.
fugitive-disentitlement doctrine.
An equitable rule that allows a trial or appellate court to limit a fugitive's access to civil and criminal courts in the United States.
fugitive-dismissal rule
The principle that an appellate court may dismiss a criminal defendant's appeal if the defendant is a fugitive.
fugitive-slave laws
Hist. Federal statutes passed in 1793 and 1850 providing for the surrender and return of slaves who had escaped and fled to a free territory or a free state.