Fugitation - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: fugitationFugitive offenders
Fugitive offenders. Where a person accused of any offence punishable by imprisonment with hard labour for twelve months or more, has left that part of his Majesty's dominions where the offence is alleged to have been committed, he is liable, if found in any other part of his Majesty's dominions, to be apprehended and returned in manner provided by the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881, to the part from which he is a fugitive; the Acthas been amended by the Fugitive Offenders (Protected States) Act, 1915. See R. v. Brixton Prison (Governor), (1907) 1 KB 696; and see EXTRADI-TION...
Fugitive
Fleeing from pursuit danger restraint etc escaping from service duty etc as a fugitive solder a fugitive slave a fugitive debtor...
Fugitation
Fugitation. In Scotland, when a criminal does not obey the citation to answer, the Court pronounces sentence of fugitation against him, which induces a forfeiture of goods and chattels to the Crown.A sentence or declaration of fugitive status that was pronounced against an accused person for failing to answer a citation and appear, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 680....
fugitive from justice warrant
fugitive from justice warrant : fugitive warrant at warrant ...
Surrender of fugitives
Surrender of fugitives. Penal laws of foreign countries are strictly local, and affect nothing more than they can reach and can be seized by virtue of their authority. A fugitive who passes hither comes with all his transitory rights. He may recover money held for his use, and stock, obligations, and the like; and cannot be affected in this country by proceedings against him in that which he has left, beyond the limits of which such proceedings do not extend. 'The lex loci must needs govern all criminal jurisdiction, from the nature of the thing and the purpose of the jurisdiction.', Warrender v. Warrender, (1834) 9 Bligh 119. See EXTRADITION...
fugitive
fugitive : a person who flees ;esp : a person who flees one jurisdiction (as a state) for another in order to elude law enforcement personnel ...
fugitive warrant
fugitive warrant see warrant ...
Fugitively
In a fugitive manner...
Fugitiveness
The quality or condition of being fugitive evanescence volatility fugacity instability...
Fatetur facinus qui judicium fugit
Fatetur facinus qui judicium fugit. 3 Inst. 14.-(He who flees judgment confesses his guilt.) See ABSCOND, FLY FOR IT....
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