3325. FUGITIVES, Rights of.—
Has a
nation a right to punish a person who has
not offended itself? Writers on the law of
nature agree that it has not; that on the
contrary, exiles and fugitives are to them
as other strangers, and have a right of residence,
unless their presence would be noxious;
e. g., infectious persons. One writer,
(Vattel, L. I. 5, 233.) extends the exception
to atrocious criminals, too imminently dangerous
to society; namely, to pirates, murderers,
and incendiaries.—
Report on Spanish Convention. Washington ed. iii, 352.
Ford ed., v, 481.
(1792)
