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3321. FUGITIVES, Murderers.—[continued].

Murder is one of the extreme
crimes justifying a denial of habitation, arrest and redelivery. It should be carefully
restrained by definition to homicide of
malice prepense, and not of the nature of
treason.
* * * The only rightful subject
then of arrest and delivery, for which we
have need [to provide by convention], is
murder.—
Report on Spanish Convention. Washington ed. iii, 352. Ford ed., v, 482.
(1792)