A Treatise Upon the Law of Extradition |
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according accused or convicted altered money apprehension ARTICLE authenticated Britain Britain and Ireland Britannic Majesty British possession Canada certified Colonies and foreign Colony or foreign Colony or Possession competent authority Counterfeiting or altering Cour de Cassation Court crime or offence crimes committed custody Dalloz decision delivered demand Diplomatic Agent discharged Ecuador evidence foreign Possessions forgery France French fugitive criminal Gén Government Governor or Chief granted grievous bodily harm habeas corpus High Contracting Parties high seas issue his warrant judicial document jurisdiction Jurisp King of Denmark Majesty the King Majesty the Queen Majesty's dominions ment metropolitan police district Minister of Justice murder offence committed Order in Council person accused person claimed piracy Plenipotentiaries Police Magistrate political character present Treaty prison to await proceedings prosecution punishment Reps requisition for extradition respective statute take place taken refuge territory tion trial United Kingdom Upper Canada Vict warrant of arrest witness writ of habeas
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Page ccix - ... 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 offense had there been committed...
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 48 - 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 cxlii - A person surrendered can in no case be kept in prison or be brought to trial in the State to which the surrender has been made, for any other crime, or on account of any other matters, than those for which the extradition shall have taken place...
Page ccv - The present Treaty shall come into force ten days after its. publication, in conformity with the forms prescribed by the laws of the High Contracting Parties.
Page 229 - 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 cxv - Kingdom, on such information or complaint and such evidence or after such proceedings as would in the opinion of the person issuing the warrant justify the issue of a warrant if the crime had been committed or the criminal convicted in that part of the United Kingdom in which he exercises jurisdiction.
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 cxliv - All articles seized which were in the possession of the person to be surrendered at the time of his apprehension shall, if the competent authority of the State applied to for the extradition has ordered the delivery...
Page clxvi - Obtaining money, valuable security, or goods by false pretences; receiving any money, valuable security, or other property, knowing the same to have been stolen or unlawfully obtained.