A Treatise Upon the Law of Extradition: With the Conventions Upon the Subject Existing Between England and Foreign Nations, and the Cases Decided Thereon |
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according accused or convicted altered money apprehension ARTICLE Barrister-at-Law BELL YARD Britain Britain and Ireland Britannic Majesty British possession Canada cloth Colony or foreign competent authority Counterfeiting or altering Cour de Cassation Court crime or offence crimes committed custody Dalloz decision delivered demand depositions Diplomatic Agent discharged Ecuador England evidence foreign Possessions forgery France French fugitive criminal Gén Government Governor or Chief granted grievous bodily harm habeas corpus High Contracting Parties INNER TEMPLE issue his warrant Journal judicial document jurisdiction Jurisp King of Denmark Lincoln's Inn Majesty the King Majesty the Queen Majesty's dominions Middle Temple Minister of Justice murder offence committed Order in Council person accused person claimed Plenipotentiaries Police Magistrate political character present Treaty principle proceedings punishment Reps requisition for extradition seal Secretary statute STEVENS & HAYNES stipulations take place TEMPLE BAR territory tion trial United Kingdom Vict warrant of arrest writ of habeas
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Page 48 - ... committed within the jurisdiction of either, shall seek an asylum, or shall be found within the territories of the other : — provided that this shall only be done upon such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial, if the crime or offence had there been committed...
Page ccix - It is agreed that the United States and Her Britannic Majesty shall, upon mutual requisitions by them, or their Ministers, officers, or authorities, respectively made, deliver up to justice, all persons who, being charged with the crime of murder, or assault with intent to commit murder, or piracy, or arson, or robbery, or forgery, or the utterance of forged paper, committed within the jurisdiction of either, shall seek an asylum, or shall be found, within the territories of the other...
Page ccii - A fugitive criminal shall not be surrendered if the offence in respect of which his surrender is demanded is one of a political character...
Page clvi - Revolt or conspiracy to revolt, by two or more persons on board a ship on the high seas against the authority of the master.
Page cliv - Jurisdictions, that persons charged with or convicted of the crimes hereinafter enumerated, and being fugitives from justice, should, under certain circumstances, be reciprocally delivered up...
Page 229 - A fugitive criminal shall not be surrendered to a foreign state unless provision is made by the law of that state, or by arrangement, that the fugitive criminal shall not, until he has been restored or had an opportunity of returning to Her Majesty's dominions, be detained or tried in that foreign state for any nffenee committed prior to his surrender other than the extradition crime proved by the facts on which the surrender is grounded...
Page cxcvii - Magistrate, Justice of the Peace, or other competent authority in either country, on such information or complaint, and such evidence, or after such proceedings as would, in the opinion of the...
Page cxc - The requisition for extradition shall be made through the Diplomatic Agents of the High Contracting Parties respectively. || The requisition for the extradition of an accused person must be accompanied by a warrant of arrest issued by the competent authority of the State requiring the extradition, and by such evidence as, according to the laws of the place where the accused is found, would justify his arrest if the crime had been committed there...
Page ccxiv - State, that the requisition for his surrender has in fact been made with a view to try or punish him for an offence of a political character...
Page xci - Fraud by a bailee, banker, agent, factor, trustee, or director, or member, or public officer of any company made criminal by any Act for the time being in force.