Requisition
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The act of demanding a thing to be done by virtue of some right. The demand made by the governor of one state on the governor of another for a fugitive from justice. The term "requisition" is sometimes used to denote the surrender of fugitives from one state to another; "extradition" being confined to surrender of fugitives by a foreign country. When, as is more common, "extradition" is used to embrace both interstate and international extradition, "requisition" is applied to the formal request of the governor for the surrender, and not to the other proceedings.