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Extradition
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ExtraditionThe arrest and delivery of a fugitive wanted for a crime committed in another country, usually under the terms of a extradition treaty.
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Arrest
To stop; to seize; to deprive one of his liberty by virtue of legal authority.
Fugitive
"1) A runaway, one who is at liberty, and endeavors, by, going away, to escape. 2)Fugitive slave. One who has escaped from the service of his master. 3)Fugitive from justice. Criminal law. One who, having committed a crime within a jurisdiction, goes into another in order to evade the law, and avoid its punishment.
Crime
An act or omission which is prohibited by criminal law. Each state sets out a limited series of acts (crimes) which are prohibited and punishes the commission of these acts by a fine, imprisonment or some other form of punishment. In exceptional cases, an omission to act can constitute a crime, such as failing to give assistance to a person in peril or failing to report a case of child abuse.
Country
By country is meant the state of which one is a member.
Extradition
The arrest and delivery of a fugitive wanted for a crime committed in another country, usually under the terms of a extradition treaty.
Treaty
International law. A treaty is a compact made between two or more independent nations with a view to the public welfare treaties are for a perpetuity, or for a considerable time. Those matters which are accomplished by a single act, and are at once perfected in their execution, are called agreements, conventions and pactions.
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Extra viam
Out of the way. When, in an action of trespass, the defendant pleads a right of way, the defendant may reply extra viam, that the trespass was committed beyond the way, or make a new assignment.
Extra-dotal property
In Louisiana this term is used to designate that property which forms no part of the dowry of a woman, and which is also called paraphernal property.
Extract
A part of a writing. In general this is not evidence, because the whole of the writing may explain the part extracted, so as to give it a different sense; but sometimes extracts from public books are evidence, as the extracts from the registers of births, marriages and burials, kept according to law, when the whole of the matter has been extracted which relates to the cause or matter in issue.
Extrajudicial
That which does not belong to the judge or his jurisdiction, notwithstanding which he takes. cognizance of it. Extrajudicial judgments and acts are absolutely void.
Extraordinary general meeting
Any meeting of the shareholders other than an annual general meeting is known as an Extraordinary General Meeting. The length of notice depends on the nature of the resolutions being put to the meeting.
Extraordinary resolution
A resolution passed by a majority of not less than three-fourths of such members as vote in person or where proxies are allowed, by proxy, at a general meeting of the company of which notice specifying the intention to propose the resolution as an extraordinary resolution has been given. Extraordinary resolutions are required where it is desired to wind up a company voluntarily on the ground that it cannot by reason of its liabilities continue its business, and that it is advisable to wind up; where, in the case of a member`s voluntary winding up, the books and papers of the company and of the liquidators are to be disposed of; and where, in the case of a member`s voluntary winding up, the liquidator wishes to exercise the power to pay any classes of creditors in full and to enter into certain compromises.
Extraordinary writ
A writ, often issued by an appellate court, making available remedies not regularly within the powers of lower courts. They include writs of habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition and quo warranto
Extravagantes
Canon law. This is the name given to the constitutions of the popes posterior to the Clementines; they are thus called quasi vagantes extra corpus juris, to express that they were out of the canonical law, which at first contained only the decrees of Gratian; afterwards the decretals of Gregory IX., the sexte of Boniface. VIII., the Clementines, and at last the extravagantes were added to it.
Extremis
When a person is sick beyond the hope of recovery, and near death, he is said to be in extremism.
Extrinsic evidence
External evidence, or that which is not contained in the body of an agreement, contract, and the like.
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Extinction of a thing
When a thing which is the subject of a contract has been destroyed, the contract is of course rescinded as, for example, if Paul sell his horse Napoleon to Peter, and promises to deliver him to the buyer in ten days, and in the mean time the horse dies, the contract is rescinded, as it is impossible to deliver a thing which is not in esse; but if Paul engage to deliver a horse to Peter in ten days, and, for the purpose of fulfilling his contract, he buys a horse and it die, this is no cause for rescinding the contract, because he can buy another and complete it afterwards. When the subject of the contract is an individual, and not generally one of a species, the contract may be rescinded; when it is one of a species which has been destroyed, then, it may still be completed, and it will be enforced.
Extorsively
A technical word used in indictments for extortion. In North Carolina, it seems, the crime of extortion may be charged without using this word.
Extortion
Crimes. In a large sense it, signifies any oppression, under color of right: but in a more strict sense it means the unlawful taking by any officer, by color of his office, of any money or thing of value that is not due to him, or more than is due, or before it is due.
Extra viam
Out of the way. When, in an action of trespass, the defendant pleads a right of way, the defendant may reply extra viam, that the trespass was committed beyond the way, or make a new assignment.
Extract
A part of a writing. In general this is not evidence, because the whole of the writing may explain the part extracted, so as to give it a different sense; but sometimes extracts from public books are evidence, as the extracts from the registers of births, marriages and burials, kept according to law, when the whole of the matter has been extracted which relates to the cause or matter in issue.
Extradition
Extra-dotal property
In Louisiana this term is used to designate that property which forms no part of the dowry of a woman, and which is also called paraphernal property.
Extrajudicial
That which does not belong to the judge or his jurisdiction, notwithstanding which he takes. cognizance of it. Extrajudicial judgments and acts are absolutely void.
Extraordinary general meeting
Any meeting of the shareholders other than an annual general meeting is known as an Extraordinary General Meeting. The length of notice depends on the nature of the resolutions being put to the meeting.
Extraordinary resolution
A resolution passed by a majority of not less than three-fourths of such members as vote in person or where proxies are allowed, by proxy, at a general meeting of the company of which notice specifying the intention to propose the resolution as an extraordinary resolution has been given. Extraordinary resolutions are required where it is desired to wind up a company voluntarily on the ground that it cannot by reason of its liabilities continue its business, and that it is advisable to wind up; where, in the case of a member`s voluntary winding up, the books and papers of the company and of the liquidators are to be disposed of; and where, in the case of a member`s voluntary winding up, the liquidator wishes to exercise the power to pay any classes of creditors in full and to enter into certain compromises.
Extraordinary writ
A writ, often issued by an appellate court, making available remedies not regularly within the powers of lower courts. They include writs of habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition and quo warranto
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Arrest
To stop; to seize; to deprive one of his liberty by virtue of legal authority.
Fugitive
"1) A runaway, one who is at liberty, and endeavors, by, going away, to escape. 2)Fugitive slave. One who has escaped from the service of his master. 3)Fugitive from justice. Criminal law. One who, having committed a crime within a jurisdiction, goes into another in order to evade the law, and avoid its punishment.
Crime
An act or omission which is prohibited by criminal law. Each state sets out a limited series of acts (crimes) which are prohibited and punishes the commission of these acts by a fine, imprisonment or some other form of punishment. In exceptional cases, an omission to act can constitute a crime, such as failing to give assistance to a person in peril or failing to report a case of child abuse.
Country
By country is meant the state of which one is a member.
Extradition
The arrest and delivery of a fugitive wanted for a crime committed in another country, usually under the terms of a extradition treaty.
Treaty
International law. A treaty is a compact made between two or more independent nations with a view to the public welfare treaties are for a perpetuity, or for a considerable time. Those matters which are accomplished by a single act, and are at once perfected in their execution, are called agreements, conventions and pactions.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Extra viam
Out of the way. When, in an action of trespass, the defendant pleads a right of way, the defendant may reply extra viam, that the trespass was committed beyond the way, or make a new assignment.
Extra-dotal property
In Louisiana this term is used to designate that property which forms no part of the dowry of a woman, and which is also called paraphernal property.
Extract
A part of a writing. In general this is not evidence, because the whole of the writing may explain the part extracted, so as to give it a different sense; but sometimes extracts from public books are evidence, as the extracts from the registers of births, marriages and burials, kept according to law, when the whole of the matter has been extracted which relates to the cause or matter in issue.
Extrajudicial
That which does not belong to the judge or his jurisdiction, notwithstanding which he takes. cognizance of it. Extrajudicial judgments and acts are absolutely void.
Extraordinary general meeting
Any meeting of the shareholders other than an annual general meeting is known as an Extraordinary General Meeting. The length of notice depends on the nature of the resolutions being put to the meeting.
Extraordinary resolution
A resolution passed by a majority of not less than three-fourths of such members as vote in person or where proxies are allowed, by proxy, at a general meeting of the company of which notice specifying the intention to propose the resolution as an extraordinary resolution has been given. Extraordinary resolutions are required where it is desired to wind up a company voluntarily on the ground that it cannot by reason of its liabilities continue its business, and that it is advisable to wind up; where, in the case of a member`s voluntary winding up, the books and papers of the company and of the liquidators are to be disposed of; and where, in the case of a member`s voluntary winding up, the liquidator wishes to exercise the power to pay any classes of creditors in full and to enter into certain compromises.
Extraordinary writ
A writ, often issued by an appellate court, making available remedies not regularly within the powers of lower courts. They include writs of habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition and quo warranto
Extravagantes
Canon law. This is the name given to the constitutions of the popes posterior to the Clementines; they are thus called quasi vagantes extra corpus juris, to express that they were out of the canonical law, which at first contained only the decrees of Gratian; afterwards the decretals of Gregory IX., the sexte of Boniface. VIII., the Clementines, and at last the extravagantes were added to it.
Extremis
When a person is sick beyond the hope of recovery, and near death, he is said to be in extremism.
Extrinsic evidence
External evidence, or that which is not contained in the body of an agreement, contract, and the like.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Extinction of a thing
When a thing which is the subject of a contract has been destroyed, the contract is of course rescinded as, for example, if Paul sell his horse Napoleon to Peter, and promises to deliver him to the buyer in ten days, and in the mean time the horse dies, the contract is rescinded, as it is impossible to deliver a thing which is not in esse; but if Paul engage to deliver a horse to Peter in ten days, and, for the purpose of fulfilling his contract, he buys a horse and it die, this is no cause for rescinding the contract, because he can buy another and complete it afterwards. When the subject of the contract is an individual, and not generally one of a species, the contract may be rescinded; when it is one of a species which has been destroyed, then, it may still be completed, and it will be enforced.
Extorsively
A technical word used in indictments for extortion. In North Carolina, it seems, the crime of extortion may be charged without using this word.
Extortion
Crimes. In a large sense it, signifies any oppression, under color of right: but in a more strict sense it means the unlawful taking by any officer, by color of his office, of any money or thing of value that is not due to him, or more than is due, or before it is due.
Extra viam
Out of the way. When, in an action of trespass, the defendant pleads a right of way, the defendant may reply extra viam, that the trespass was committed beyond the way, or make a new assignment.
Extract
A part of a writing. In general this is not evidence, because the whole of the writing may explain the part extracted, so as to give it a different sense; but sometimes extracts from public books are evidence, as the extracts from the registers of births, marriages and burials, kept according to law, when the whole of the matter has been extracted which relates to the cause or matter in issue.
Extradition
Extra-dotal property
In Louisiana this term is used to designate that property which forms no part of the dowry of a woman, and which is also called paraphernal property.
Extrajudicial
That which does not belong to the judge or his jurisdiction, notwithstanding which he takes. cognizance of it. Extrajudicial judgments and acts are absolutely void.
Extraordinary general meeting
Any meeting of the shareholders other than an annual general meeting is known as an Extraordinary General Meeting. The length of notice depends on the nature of the resolutions being put to the meeting.
Extraordinary resolution
A resolution passed by a majority of not less than three-fourths of such members as vote in person or where proxies are allowed, by proxy, at a general meeting of the company of which notice specifying the intention to propose the resolution as an extraordinary resolution has been given. Extraordinary resolutions are required where it is desired to wind up a company voluntarily on the ground that it cannot by reason of its liabilities continue its business, and that it is advisable to wind up; where, in the case of a member`s voluntary winding up, the books and papers of the company and of the liquidators are to be disposed of; and where, in the case of a member`s voluntary winding up, the liquidator wishes to exercise the power to pay any classes of creditors in full and to enter into certain compromises.
Extraordinary writ
A writ, often issued by an appellate court, making available remedies not regularly within the powers of lower courts. They include writs of habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition and quo warranto
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