Definition of Extradition

1. Noun. The surrender of an accused or convicted person by one state or country to another (usually under the provisions of a statute or treaty).

Generic synonyms: Surrender
Derivative terms: Extradite

Definition of Extradition

1. n. The surrender or delivery of an alleged criminal by one State or sovereignty to another having jurisdiction to try charge.

Definition of Extradition

1. Noun. a formal process by which a criminal suspect held by one government is handed over to another government for trial or, if the suspect has already been tried and found guilty, to serve his or her sentence ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Extradition

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Extradition

extractors
extracts
extracts the urine
extracurricular
extracurricular activity
extracurriculars
extracystic
extracytoplasmic
extradictionary
extradimensional
extraditable
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extradited
extradites
extraditing
extradition (current term)
extraditions
extrados
extradoses
extradotal
extradural
extradural anaesthesia
extradural haematorrhachis
extradural haemorrhage
extraembryonic
extraembryonic blastoderm
extraembryonic celom
extraembryonic ectoderm
extraembryonic membrane

Literary usage of Extradition

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1920)
"The first in the field with such an extradition law was Belgium in 1833, ... English public opinion was for many years against extradition treaties at all, ..."

2. International Law Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied by the United States by Charles Cheney Hyde (1922)
"Preliminary, a extradition was defined by Chief Justice Fuller in the case of Terlinden v. Ames to be: The surrender by one nation to another of an ..."

3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1886)
"The treaty of extradition between the United States and Great Britain admits no right in either party to exact conditions beyond those expressed in the ..."

4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1913)
"Mere errors in the rejection of evidence in extradition proceedings are not subject to review by a writ of habeas corpus. i where no such exception was made ..."

5. The Treaty Making Power of the United States by Charles Henry Butler (1902)
"MOORE ON extradition AND INTERSTATE RENDITION. A Treatise on extradition and Interstate Rendition. With Appendices containing the Treaties and Statutes ..."

6. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton (1866)
"[73 extradition. — It may be considered as settled in the United States, that, in the absence of positive law conferring the power upon a judicial tribunal, ..."

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