EXTRADITION

The surrender of a criminal by a foreign state to which he has fled for refuge from prosecution to the state within whose jurisdiction the crime was ~ committed, upon the demand of the latter state, in order that he.may be dealt with according to its laws. Extradition may be accorded as a mere matter of comity, or may take place under treaty stipulations between tb,e two nations. It also obtains as between, the different states of the American Union. Terlinden v. Ames, 184 U. S. 270, 22 Sup. Ct. 484, 46 L Ed. 534; Fong Yue Ting v. U. S., 149 U. S. 698, 13 Sup. Ot. 1016, 37 L. Ed. 905. Extradition between the states must be cousidered and defined to be a political duty of im• perfect obligation, founded upon compact, and requiring each state to surrender one who, hav• ing violated the criminal laws of another state, has fled from its justice, and is found in t'he f state from which he is demanded, on demand of the executive· authority of the state from which he fled. Ahbof!t. ' [s. 477]