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extradition, n.|ɛkstrəˈdɪʃən|
[a. F. extradition, f. L. ex- out + trāditiōn-em, n. of action f. trādĕre to deliver up: see tradition.]
1. The action of giving up (a person) to the authorities of a foreign state; esp. the delivery of a fugitive criminal to the authorities of the state in which the crime was committed. Hence in gen. sense: Surrender (of a prisoner) by one authority to another.
1839De Quincey Casuistry Wks. VIII. 308 If the law of extradition should remain unchanged. 1857Fraser's Mag. LVI. 161 A demand for (we must use a foreign and un-English word to express an un-English thing) the extradition of Mazzini. 1870Act 33–4 Vict. c. 52 (title) An Act for amending the Law relating to the Extradition of Criminals. 1879Farrar St. Paul II. 336 They wished to make sure of the extradition of their victim.
2. The process of localizing a sensation at a distance from the centre of sensation.
1874Carpenter Ment. Phys. i. v. (1879) 186 A kind of extradition of the visual sensation. 1887W. James in Mind Apr. 205 Extradition obtains..even of such sensations as we locate on the exact sensory surfaces where the nerves terminate.
3. attrib. (sense 1), as extradition act, extradition clause, extradition crime; extradition treaty, a treaty by which two nations mutually bind themselves to surrender any fugitive criminal who has committed in the other's territory any of certain specified offences.
1852Abbott Lawrence Dispatch to D. Webster, The proposition..to conclude an extradition treaty with the United States. 1870Act 33–4 Vict. c. 52 §1 This Act may be cited as ‘The Extradition Act 1870’. Ibid. §26 An extradition crime. 1875P. Le P. Renouf Egyptian Gram. 35 These words occur in the extradition clause of the Treaty between Rameses II and the king of Cheta.
Hence extraˈdition v. trans., to bring (a criminal) under the operation of an extradition treaty.
1889Scot. Leader 18 Apr. 5 Barton..obstructed extradition process until quite recently, when he was successfully extraditioned. |