Abscondment (abscond or absconding)

To flee or hide to avoid the law.  The essence of absconding is to conceal oneself, almost always be fleeing the jurisdiction.  Although it sometimes includes things as well, such as stolen property, the term properly means only the person and not the thing, as when one says, the embezzler absconded witht he firm's accounts.

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