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hot pursuit

hot pursuit : the immediate and continuous pursuit by police officers of a fleeing suspect whose possible escape justifies the failure of the officers to obtain a warrant before making an entry, search, seizure, or arrest ...

fresh pursuit

fresh pursuit 1 : the immediate and continuous pursuit by police officers of a suspect who is fleeing to avoid arrest that under common law and some state codes gives the officers the right to cross jurisdictional lines in order to make an arrest 2 : hot pursuit ...

Pursuit

The act of following or going after esp a following with haste either for sport or in hostility chase prosecution as the pursuit of game the pursuit of an enemy...

Red hot

Red with heat heated to redness as red hot iron red hot balls Hence figuratively excited violent as a red hot radical...

hot cargo

hot cargo : products made by nonunion employees or by employees considered to be treated unfairly by their employer adj : of, relating to, or being an agreement between labor and an employer barring the employer from using or otherwise dealing with the products of another employer whose employees are nonunion NOTE: Hot cargo agreements, clauses, and provisions were outlawed by the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act. ...

Hotly

In a hot or fiery manner ardently vehemently violently hastily as a hotly pursued...

Fresh suit, or Pursuit

Fresh suit, or Pursuit, such a present and earnest following a robber as never ceases from the time of the robbery until apprehension. The party thus pursuing had his goods restored to him, which otherwise were forfeited to the Crown, Staundf. Pl. Cor., lib. 3, cc. 10, 12.The right of a police officer to make a warrantors search of a fleeing suspect or to cross jurisdictional lines to arrest a fleeing suspect, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 677....

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