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Fugitive criminal, means a person who is accused or convicted of an extradition offence within the jurisdiction of a foreign State and includes a person who, while in India, conspires, attempts to commit or incites or participates as an accomplice in the commission of an extradition offence in a foreign State. [Extradition Act, 1962 (34 of 1962), s. 2(f)]...
Extradition
Extradition, the surrender by a foreign state of a person accused of a crime to the state where it was committed, in order that he may be tried there. It is recognized as a duty, independent of treaty, by international law, but is usually the subject of treaty terminable at one year's notice. The (English) Extradition Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 52), 'as to the whole of His Majesty's dominions' provides (s. 2) that where an arrangement has been made with any foreign state with respect to the surrender to such state of any fugitive criminals, his Majesty may, by Order in Council, direct that this Act shall apply in the case of such foreign state. The Act, as amended by the (English) Extradition Acts, 1873, 1895, and 1906, provides for the arrangements and procedure regarding extradition, see R. v. Daye, (1908) 2 KB 333, and imposes various restrictions thereon, e.g., in regard to political offences. The (English) Extradition Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 39), adds offences in connection...
Fugitation
Fugitation. In Scotland, when a criminal does not obey the citation to answer, the Court pronounces sentence of fugitation against him, which induces a forfeiture of goods and chattels to the Crown.A sentence or declaration of fugitive status that was pronounced against an accused person for failing to answer a citation and appear, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 680....
Surrender of fugitives
Surrender of fugitives. Penal laws of foreign countries are strictly local, and affect nothing more than they can reach and can be seized by virtue of their authority. A fugitive who passes hither comes with all his transitory rights. He may recover money held for his use, and stock, obligations, and the like; and cannot be affected in this country by proceedings against him in that which he has left, beyond the limits of which such proceedings do not extend. 'The lex loci must needs govern all criminal jurisdiction, from the nature of the thing and the purpose of the jurisdiction.', Warrender v. Warrender, (1834) 9 Bligh 119. See EXTRADITION...
Fugitive
Fugitive, 1. A person who flees or escape; a refuge 2. A criminal suspects who flees evades, or escapes arrest prosecution, or imprisonment, esp. by fleeing jurisdiction or by hiding, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 680....
Fugitive offenders
Fugitive offenders. Where a person accused of any offence punishable by imprisonment with hard labour for twelve months or more, has left that part of his Majesty's dominions where the offence is alleged to have been committed, he is liable, if found in any other part of his Majesty's dominions, to be apprehended and returned in manner provided by the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881, to the part from which he is a fugitive; the Acthas been amended by the Fugitive Offenders (Protected States) Act, 1915. See R. v. Brixton Prison (Governor), (1907) 1 KB 696; and see EXTRADI-TION...
Fugitive
Fleeing from pursuit danger restraint etc escaping from service duty etc as a fugitive solder a fugitive slave a fugitive debtor...
Committal to prison
Committal to prison, if the Magistrate commits the fugitive criminal to prison he must commit him, subject to any appeal there to await the secretary of state's warrant for his surrender, and must send the secretary of state a certificate of the committal and such report upon the case, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 18, para 230, p. 95....
fugitive from justice warrant
fugitive from justice warrant : fugitive warrant at warrant ...
fugitive
fugitive : a person who flees ;esp : a person who flees one jurisdiction (as a state) for another in order to elude law enforcement personnel ...
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