The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fugitive \Fu"gi*tive\, n.
One who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service, duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice.
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Something hard to be caught or detained.
Or Catch that airy fugitive called wit.
--Harte.Fugitive from justice (Law), one who, having committed a crime in one jurisdiction, flees or escapes into another to avoid punishment.
Wiktionary
n. (context legal English) A person who is convicted or accused of a crime that flees from law enforcement and runs across state lines to evade arrest.
WordNet
n. someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice [syn: fugitive]
Usage examples of "fugitive from justice".
They said Hannah Rainey was a fugitive from justice, a partner in one of the most successful cocaine-importing rings in the country, and that she had shot and killed two undercover police officers in a sting operation that had gone sour.
He felt, in his heart, that he'd already begun his sentence, a life sentence, when he fled the police that night, slipping into his life as an outlaw, a fugitive from justice, as you'd slip on a glove that doesn't quite fit at first, and then does.
Byrne, apprehended after more than a year as fugitive from justice, is sent to Joliet for life.
Fergus had reminded her she was a fugitive from justice, an escapee, and walking into the nearest police station saying, 'I'm sorry' certainly wasn't going to be met with much sympathy.
A fugitive from justice, hoping to lose himself on a raw new world.
I am far too clever to walk into the traps which catch the ordinary fugitive from justice.
The Global Community Network News was reporting that a Michael Shorosh had been arrested in connection with the harboring of a fugitive from justice.
He would rather have gone without beer for a week than admit it, but now he was a fugitive from justice in a murder case and needed me.
Are you a fugitive from justice, or a criminal under sentence of death?
Mexico is a wonderful country, but it's no fun being a prisoner and thinking you're a fugitive from justice at the same time.