Jastrow: נָטוּשׁ

נָטוּשׁ m. (נָטַשׁ) a fugitive whose estate is abandoned. Y. Keth. IV, 29ᵃ bot. נ׳ זה שיצא לדעת a naṭush is he who left of his own accord (not carried away by force); Y. Yeb. XV, 15ᵃ top.—Pl. נְטוּשִׁים, נְטוּשִׁין. Ib.; Tosef. Keth. VIII, 3 אלו הן נכסי נ׳ וכ׳ this is (in a legal sense) the abandoned estate of n’ṭushin: if the heir took possession without a report of the absentee’s death having arrived, contrad. to רטושים; B. Mets. 38ᵇ. Ib. שמעתי שהנ׳ כשבויין I heard a tradition that the estate of fugitives is of the same legal category as that of captured persons. Ib., sq. מאי שנא הנך … נ׳ וכ׳ why are these called n’ṭushim, and the others r’ṭushim? נ׳ דבע"כ n. are those who emigrate against their will (fugitives from justice).