Bounty Hunter Someone who who chases down defendants who have skipped bail, and turns them in.
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BOUNTY. A sum of money or other thing, given, generally by' the government, to certain persons, for some service they have done or are about to do to the public.
Bounty Hunters
Bounty hunters have been subject to suits for false arrest when they attempt to execute a bench warrant outside of the United States.
Bounty
Definition - Noun
1 : generosity in bestowing gifts esp. by will
2 : a reward, premium, or subsidy esp. offered by a government
Pronunciation'bau'n-tE ...
For example, in a will contest where a decedent leaves millions to his stockbroker, instead of to his own children or other blood relatives (whom the law presumes to be the natural objects of the decedent’s bounty), ...
under the others, till on the accession of William and Mary, the landed interest, taking advantage of the Revolution as they had taken advantage of the Restoration to promote their own interests, took the new and surprising step of enacting a bounty ...
is given to a person under a particular description and character which he himself has falsely assumed; or, where a testator, induced by the false representations of third persons to regard the legatee in a relationship which claims his bounty, ...
Also known as informer or bounty statutes.
As defined in John Bouvier's law dictionary: ...
A challenge to the validity of a will often turns on a claim that the person (now dead and unable to testify) lacked the capacity to understand what he/she owned, who were the "natural objects of his/her bounty" (close relatives primarily), ...
 See also: Person, Law, State, Will, Action
  
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