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Extradition

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

[from ex, from or out of, and traditio, a delivery.] Delivery from one nation or state to another. Particularly applied to the delivery by one nation or state to another, of fugitives from justice, in pursuance of a law or treaty.

Webster. Lewis' U. S. Crim. Law, 241, et seq.