The Archive · 1928

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"Paragraph (3) of Section 4 of tae principal Ordirtance provides is granted" for the words "other than the extradition on which the surrender is demanded." that 9 fugitive criminal shall not be surrendered unless an engagement is given against his being tried for an offence "other than the extradition crime on which the surrender is demanded." Demands are sometimes made before the facts are completely known, Further the categories of English law and Chinese law do not necessarily fully correspond to one another. It is possible accordingly that the requisition may describe which differs from the crime subsequently disclosed by the evidence. The sur render is eventually made in respect of the crime disclosed in the evidence, and it is to that crime that ' the proceedings

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