sb. [a. F. extradition, f. L. ex- out + trāditiōn-em, n. of action f. trādĕre to deliver up: see TRADITION.]
1. The action of giving up (a person) to the authorities of a foreign state; esp. the delivery of a fugitive criminal to the authorities of the state in which the crime was committed. Hence in gen. sense: Surrender (of a prisoner) by one authority to another.
1839. De Quincey, Casuistry, Wks. VIII. 308. If the law of extradition should remain unchanged.
1857. Fraser’s Mag., LVI. 161/2. A demand for (we must use a foreign and un-English word to express an un-English thing) the extradition of Mazzini and Ledru Roffin.
1870. Act 33–4 Vict., c. 52 (title), An Act for amending the Law relating to the Extradition of Criminals.
1879. Farrar, St. Paul, II. 336–7. They wished to make sure of the extradition of their victim.
2. The process of localizing a sensation at a distance from the center of sensation.
1874. Carpenter, Ment. Phys., I. v. (1879), 186. A kind of extradition of the visual sensation.
1887. W. James, in Mind, April, 205. Extradition obtains … even of such sensations as we locate on the exact sensory surfaces where the nerves terminate.
3. attrib. (sense 1), as extradition act, clause, crime. Extradition treaty, a treaty by which two nations mutually bind themselves to surrender any fugitive criminal who has committed in the other’s territory any of certain specified offences.
1852. Abbott Lawrence, Dispatch to D. Webster. The proposition … to conclude an extradition treaty with the United States.
1870. Act 33–4 Vict., c. 52 § 1. This Act may be cited as ‘The Extradition Act 1870.’ Ibid., § 26. An extradition crime.
1875. Renouf, Egyptian Gram., 35. These words occur in the extradition clause of the Treaty between Rameses II. and the king of Cheta.
Hence Extradition v. trans., to bring (a criminal) under the operation of an extradition treaty.
1889. Scot. Leader, 18 April, 5. Barton … obstructed extradition process until quite recently, when he was successfully extraditioned.
