Legal Definition and Related Resources of Fugitive

One who flees. Always used in law with the implication of flight , evasion or escape from some duty or penalty or from the consequences of a misdeed.

noun

• absconder
• avoider
• defaulter
• deserter
• escaped prisoner
• escapee
• escaper
• evader
• fteerfugitivus
• hunted person
• levanter
• one who flees
• person who flees justice
• prisonbreaker
• profugus
• refugee prisoner
• renegade
• runagate
• runaway
• Associated Concepts: fugitive from justice
• fugitive warrant

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Translate Fugitive from English to Spanish

Translation of Fugitive, with examples. More about free online translation into Spanish of Prófugo and other legal terms is available here.

• Prófugo
• Legal English Translation

Grammar

This term is a noun.

Etimology of Fugitive

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late 14c., “one who flees, a runaway, a fugitive from justice, an outlaw,” from fugitive (adj.). Old French fugitif also was used as a noun meaning “fugitive person,” and Latin fugitivus (adj.) commonly also was used as a noun meaning “a runaway, fugitive slave, deserter.”