Meaning of EXTRADITION
| Pronunciation: | | `ekstru'dishun
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| | Definition: | | [n] the surrender of an accused or convicted person by one state or country to another (usually under the provisions of a statute or treaty) |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ex`tra*di"tion\, n. [L. ex out + traditio a
delivering up: cf. F. extradition. See {Tradition}.]
The surrender or delivery of an alleged criminal by one State
or sovereignty to another having jurisdiction to try charge.
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| | Definition: | | The surrender of an accused criminal by one state to the jurisdiction of another. |
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| | Related Terms: | | banishment, blackballing, communication, conduction, contagion, convection, defrocking, degradation, delivery, demotion, depluming, deportation, deprivation, diapedesis, diffusion, disbarment, disfellowship, displuming, dissemination, exclusion, excommunication, exile, expatriation, export, exportation, expulsion, fugitation, giving back, import, importation, interchange, metastasis, metathesis, metempsychosis, migration, mutual transfer, osmosis, ostracism, ostracization, outlawing, outlawry, passage, passing over, perfusion, recommitment, reddition, relegation, remand, remandment, remitter, rendition, repatriation, restitution, restoration, restoring, return, rustication, sending back, spread, spreading, stripping, transduction, transfer, transfer of property, transference, transfusion, transit, transition, translation, translocation, transmigration, transmigration of souls, transmission, transmittal, transmittance, transplacement, transplantation, transportation, transposal, transposition, travel, unfrocking |
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