Extradition Act of 1981: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session, on S. 1639, October 14, 1981

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Страница 142 - In dealing with probable cause, ... as the very name implies, we deal with probabilities. These are not technical; they are the factual and practical considerations of everyday life on which reasonable and prudent men, not legal technicians, act.
Страница 259 - If, on such hearing, he deems the evidence sufficient to sustain the charge under the provisions of the proper treaty or convention, he shall certify the same, together with a copy of all the testimony taken before him, to the Secretary of State, that a warrant may issue upon the requisition of the proper authorities of such foreign government, for the surrender of such person, according to the stipulations of the treaty or convention...
Страница 281 - A fugitive criminal shall not be surrendered if the offence in respect of which his surrender is demanded is one of a political character...
Страница 49 - I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
Страница 42 - that whoever drew blood in the streets should be punished with the utmost severity," was held after long debate not to extend to the surgeon, who opened the vein of a person that fell down in the street with a fit. 5. But, lastly, the most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of a law, when the words are dubious is by considering the reason and spirit of it or the cause which moved the legislator to enact it.
Страница 163 - ... there must be two or more parties in the State, each seeking to impose the Government of their own choice on the other...
Страница 124 - Every sovereign state is bound to respect the independence of every other sovereign state and the courts of one country will not sit in judgment on the acts of the government of another done within its own territory.
Страница 121 - We are not to be understood, however, as underrating the weight of the argument that in a case involving private rights, the court may be obliged, if those rights are dependent upon the construction of acts of Congress or of a treaty, and the case turns upon a question, public in its nature, which has not been determined by the political departments in the form of a law specifically settling it, or authorizing the executive to do so, to render judgment, " since we have no more right to decline the...
Страница 114 - Extradition shall be granted only if the evidence be found sufficient, according to the laws of the place where the person sought shall be found, either to justify his committal for trial if the offense of which he is accused had been committed in its territory or to prove that he is the identical person convicted by the courts of the requesting State.
Страница 140 - State, that the requisition for his surrender has in fact been made with a view to try or punish him for an offence of a political character...

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