(405 ILCS 10/2) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 122)
Sec. 2.
The terms "flight" and "fled" as used in this act, shall be
construed to mean any voluntary or involuntary departure from the
jurisdiction of the court where the proceedings hereinafter mentioned may
have been instituted and are still pending, with the effect of avoiding,
impeding or delaying the action of the court in which such proceedings may
have been instituted or be pending, or any such departure from the state
where the person demanded then was, if he then was under detention by law
as a person of unsound mind and subject to detention. The word "state"
wherever used in this act shall include states, territories, districts and
insular and other possessions of the United States. As applied to a request
to return any person within the purview of this act to or from the District
of Columbia, the words "executive authority," "Governor" and "Chief
Magistrate" respectively shall include a justice of the Supreme Court of
the District of Columbia and other authority.
(Source: Laws 1917, p. 345.)
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