Extradition \Ex`tra*di"tion\, n. [L. ex out + traditio a
   delivering up: cf. F. extradition. See Tradition.]
   The surrender or delivery of an alleged criminal by one State
   or sovereignty to another having jurisdiction to try charge.
   [1913 Webster]

	

	extradition
    n 1: the surrender of an accused or convicted person by one
         state or country to another (usually under the provisions
         of a statute or treaty)

	

	82 Moby Thesaurus words for "extradition":
   banishment, blackballing, communication, conduction, contagion,
   convection, defrocking, degradation, delivery, demotion, depluming,
   deportation, deprivation, diapedesis, diffusion, disbarment,
   disfellowship, displuming, dissemination, exclusion,
   excommunication, exile, expatriation, export, exportation,
   expulsion, fugitation, giving back, import, importation,
   interchange, metastasis, metathesis, metempsychosis, migration,
   mutual transfer, osmosis, ostracism, ostracization, outlawing,
   outlawry, passage, passing over, perfusion, recommitment,
   reddition, relegation, remand, remandment, remitter, rendition,
   repatriation, restitution, restoration, restoring, return,
   rustication, sending back, spread, spreading, stripping,
   transduction, transfer, transfer of property, transference,
   transfusion, transit, transition, translation, translocation,
   transmigration, transmigration of souls, transmission, transmittal,
   transmittance, transplacement, transplantation, transportation,
   transposal, transposition, travel, unfrocking

	

	EXTRADITION, civil law. The act of sending, by authority of law, a person 
accused of a crime to a foreign jurisdiction where it was committed, in' 
order that he may be tried there. Merl. Rep. h.t. 
     2. By the constitution and laws of the United States, fugitives from 
justice (q.v.) may be demanded by the executive of the one state where the 
crime has been committed from that of another where the accused is. Const. 
United States, art. 4, s. 2, 2 3 Story, Com. Const. U. S. Sec. 1801, et seq. 
     3. The government of the United States is bound by some treaty 
stipulation's to surrender criminals who take refuge within the country, but 
independently of such conventions, it is questionable whether criminals can 
be surrendered. 1 Kent. Com. 36; 4 John. C. R. 106; 1 Amer. Jurist, 297; 10 
Serg. & Rawle, 125; 22 Amer. Jur. 330; Story's Confl. of Laws, p. 520; 
Wheat. Intern. Law, 111. 
     4. As to when the extradition or delivery of the supposed criminal is 
complete is not very certain. A case occurred in, France of a Mr. Cassado, a 
Spaniard, who had taken refuge in Bayonne. Upon an application made to the 
French government, he was delivered to the Spanish consul who had authority 
to take him to Spain, and while in the act of removing him with the 
assistance of French officers, a creditor obtained an execution against his 
person, and made an attempt to execute it and retain Cassado in France, but 
the council of state, (conseil d'etat) on appeal, decided that the courts 
could not interfere, and directed Cassado to be delivered to the Spanish 
authorities. Morrin, Dict. du Dr. Crim. h.v.