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Subtitle: With Appendices Containing the Treaties and Statutes Relating to Extradition; the Treaties Relating to Desertion of Seamen; and the Statutes and Rules of Practice, and Forms, in Force in the Serveral States and Territories, Relating to Interstate Rendition General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1891 Original Publisher: The Boston book company Subjects: Extradition Law / General Law / Civil Procedure Law / Criminal Law / General Law / International Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Belgian government, in the recent case of General Boulanger. But expulsion in the main conserves only the interests of the state to which the criminal flees. i It does not meet the ends of justice. In extradition alone is found a complete remedy for the evils in which it has its justification.2 3. Origin of Extradition. 5. Asylum. -- Viewed as a system, extradition may be said to be of modern origin.3 In early times, however, we find many instances of the surrender of fugitives from justice. The chief obstacle in the way of the systematic practice of such surrender was the exaggerated notion held by the ancient nations as to the right of asylum. In the earliest times the right of asylum for fugitive offenders was restricted to particular places which religion invested with a sacred character and protected from invasion. Once there, the fugitive was safe from pursuit, and his self-imposed exile was his only punishment. In course of time these places of refuge ceased to exist. But hospitality and protection had come to be regarded as the fugitive's right, and in the end each separate country became a place of refuge for offenders against the laws of other nations. The religious was succ...

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