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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.

What about extradition, if a citizen of one country visits another and breaks the local law?

There were treaties between states for the extradition of fugitives, and contracts of mutual assurance between individuals against their loss by flight.

He has also the almost mechanical function of representing the state for various formal purposes, such as demanding from other states the extradition of offenders, the issuing of writs for the election of members of the legislature and of members of the Federal House of Representatives, and the receiving of reports from various state officials or boards.

The writ is freely resorted to in Canada, and in 1905, 1906, two appeals came to the privy council from the dominion, one with reference to an extradition case, the other with respect to the right to expel aliens.

As an outcome of his mission an extradition treaty was concluded with Great Britain in March 1898.

To see him arrested again on an extradition warrant beggars belief.

Top of page Export extradition This guidance is confined to the arrest of persons after the implementation of the Extradition Act 2003.

If the District Judge is satisfied that these issues have been met then they must make an order for the person's extradition.

The US-UK extradition Treaty extends the right of the US courts to order the extradition of a suspect in the UK without evidence.

Venezuela ' Supreme Court has authorized the extradition request under Venezuelan law, maintaining the charges against Posada Carriles are still valid.

Taiwan has no extradition treaty with the United States.

The purpose of EU-wide arrest warrants was to help speed up extradition proceedings between members of the EU.

Differences arising out of the M ` Leod case were adjusted by extend - ing the principle of extradition.

Extradition treaties are undertakings between states curtailing the exercise of the right of asylum in respect of refugees from justice, but the conditions therein laid down invariably show that nations regard the maintenance of this right of asylum as intimately connected with their right of independent action, however weak as states they may be, on their own soil.

Under this act powers are given to the secretary of state to make an order requiring an alien to leave the United Kingdom within a time fixed by the order and thereafter to remain outside the United Kingdom, subject to certain conditions, provided it is certified to him that the alien has been convicted of any felony or misdemeanour or other offence for which the court has power to impose imprisonment without the option of a fine, &c., or that he has been sentenced in a foreign country with which there is an extradition treaty, for a crime not being an offence of a political character.

For the now operative treaties of extradition to which Great Britain is a party, it will be sufficient to refer to the article Extradition.

Before the passing of this general act it had been necessary to pass a special act for giving effect to each treaty of extradition.

Suleimans demand, however, for extradition or execution was too peremptory for refusal, and the prince was delivered up to the messengers sent to take him.

In the case of the Canadian prisoners (1839) it was used to obtain the release of persons sentenced in Canada for participating in the rebellion of 1837, who were being conveyed throughout England in custody on their way to imprisonment in another part of the empire, and it is matter of frequent experience for the courts to review the legality of commitments under the Extradition Acts and the Fugitive Offenders Act 1881, of fugitives from the justice of a foreign state or parts of the king's dominions outside the British Islands.

He opposed the Alien and Sedition Laws, introduced legislation on behalf of American seamen, and in 1800 attacked the president for permitting the extradition by the British government of Jonathan Robbins, who had committed murder on an English frigate, and had then escaped to South Carolina and falsely claimed to be an American citizen.

At fourteen Walewski refused to enter the Russian army, escaping to London and thence to Paris, where the French government refused his extradition to the Russian authorities.

Article 7 Genocide and the other acts enumerated in Article 3 shall not be considered as political crimes for the purpose of extradition.

Justin is a US citizen awaiting extradition to the US in connection with the release of thousands of mink in 1997.

The hearing resulted in New York refusing the extradition of Abe Attell.

During those 30 years he had spent " huge sums in legal fees " fighting extradition.

In November he was formally committed to face extradition to Spain.

It marks the first time a state has sought the extradition of anyone aiding suicides anywhere in the world.

He is being imprisoned while awaiting a possible extradition to the United States.

He is currently incarcerated in Spain awaiting extradition to Morocco.

There were disputes with Henry, who demanded the extradition of fugitive friars, which James refused.

He did not even feel secure against extradition in Mannheim, and after several weeks spent mainly in the village of Oggersheim, where his third drama, Luise Millerin, or, as it was subsequently renamed, Kabale and Liebe, was in great part written, he found a refuge at Bauerbach in Thuringia, in the house of Frau von Wolzogen, the mother of one of his former schoolmates.

The UK does not have the authority to request extradition without evidence of American citizens to Britain.

Lord Clarendon, the head of the British foreign office, told the French ambassador, who read him this despatch, that no consideration on earth would induce the British parliament to pass a measure for the extradition of political refugees, but he added that it was a question whether the law was as complete and as stringent as it should be, and he stated that the government had already referred the whole subject to the law officers of the crown for their consideration.

In 1893 and 1894 commercial and extradition treaties and a trade-mark convention were made with Great Britain, AustriaHungary and Germany.