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Extradition

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).

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"Extradition" Quotes from Famous Books

... Immaculate Saints where we were to meet, I felt better. And when I saw those other American boys come swaggering into the trysting place—cool, easy, conspicuous fellows, ready to risk any kind of a one-card draw, or to fight grizzlies, fire, or extradition, I began to feel glad I was one of 'em. So, I says to myself again: 'Billy, you've got fifteen dollars and a country left this morning—blow in the dollars and blow up the town as an American gentleman should ...

— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry

... that he had escaped. His original plan had contemplated connivance in the escape of Lady Greystoke for two very good and sufficient reasons. The first was that by saving her he would win the gratitude of the English, and thus lessen the chance of his extradition should his identity and his crime against his superior ...

— Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... now—and I'll tell you the whole story—is no secret, for thousands of people have read of the Brandt extradition case in the United States. Twenty years ago I was arrested in San Francisco at the instance of the German Consul there, but managed to escape after being in ...

— Yorke The Adventurer - 1901 • Louis Becke

Words linked to "Extradition" : extradite, surrender