extradition

extradition
(èk-stra-di-sion ; en vers, de cinq syllabes) s. f.
   Action de remettre un réfugié pour une cause quelconque au gouvernement étranger qui le réclame.
   Les Turcs insistèrent en vain sur l'extradition de Cantemir, VOLT. Russie, II, 1.
   Remise.
   Il a fallu payer cher l'extradition des pièces [du procès], VOLT. Lett. Vernes, 24 mai 1763.
   Lat. ex, hors, et traditio, action de remettre (voy. tradition).

Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré. . 1872-1877.

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