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Encyclopedia of Iowa Law; Being a Plain Statement of the Law of Iowa So Far as It Affects the People in Their Business, Domestic and Social Relations - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914. Excerpt: ... EXTORTION. IOWA LAW DICTIONARY. FALSE PEKSONATIOH Extortion. Literally, wringing from; used in law to denote the process of obtaining another's money or property by force, fear, oppression or wrongful exaction. For the definition and punishment of extortion by railway companies.see Code,!! 2144, 2148; and by officers in receiving Illegal fees, see Code, 5 4888; and as to punishment for threats made for the purpose of extortion, see Code, 9 4767. Extradition. The surrender by one sovereign state to another, on Its demand, of persons charged with the commission of crime within its jurisdiction, In order that they may be dealt with according to Its laws. Extradition is either international or interstate; International, when the transaction takes place between two sovereign nations; Interstate when It takes place between two states of the Union. The right of international extradition Is dependent wholly upon treaties; that of Interstate extradition upon a provision of the federal constitution (art 4, I 2), to the effect that "« person charged in any state with treason, felony or other crime, who shall flee from justice and be found in another state, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime." Section 5278 of the Revised Statutes of the United States prescribes the mode of procedure in such cases, and Imposes a like duty upon the territories of the United States; and sections 5169-5181 of the Code regulate the procedure, so far as a state may do so, when the demand is made by or upon this state. The demand Is called a "requisition," and it li issued by the governor of one state and obeyed by the governor of another only when the forms of law hav...
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