Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Outside of the authority of a court.
- adjective Without the intervention or involvement of a court.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Outside of judicial proceedings; out of the proper court, or the ordinary course or scope of legal procedure: as, extrajudicial declarations (those made out of court).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Out of or beyond the power authority of a court or judge; beyond jurisdiction; not valid as a part of a judicial proceeding; , are null and void.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective law, of a punishment
Carried out without legalauthority .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective beyond the usual course of legal proceedings; legally unwarranted
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Examples
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They are cheap, reliable, and a reason why 28 prisoners have been held in extrajudicial detention in Guantanamo.
Boing Boing 2009
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In 2001, despite threats and grenade attacks, Guatemalan judges eventually convicted three people for the murder of Bishop Juan José Gerardi, who had just released a report on the state's and the military's complicity in extrajudicial killings.
John Feffer: Not-So-Magical Realism John Feffer 2010
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In matters of foreign policy, this has for some time resulted in extrajudicial executions — war — but we are a far cry in this administration from the million Iraqis that Bush wiped out.
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In 2001, despite threats and grenade attacks, Guatemalan judges eventually convicted three people for the murder of Bishop Juan José Gerardi, who had just released a report on the state's and the military's complicity in extrajudicial killings.
John Feffer: Not-So-Magical Realism John Feffer 2010
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Targeted or political assassinations -- sometimes called extrajudicial executions -- are carried out by order of, or with the acquiescence of, a government, outside any judicial framework.
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Targeted or political assassinations -- sometimes called extrajudicial executions -- are carried out by order of, or with the acquiescence of, a government, outside any judicial framework.
Marjorie Cohn: Obama's Af-Pak War Should be Considered Illegal 2009
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We believe that the presence of our forces and Iraqi forces in neighborhoods; the focus on the so-called extrajudicial killing -- EJK -- cells, is, at least in substantial part, a reason for the reduction in these sectarian killings.
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I believe that they should stop the incursions, the closures, they should lift the roadblocks from one place to the other, between cities and villages and between everyone within the same -- and then they should stop the targeted killings, so-called extrajudicial killings or murders, and this kind of thing, because the Palestinians cannot abandon all kinds of resistance while the Israelis are doing that.
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Marjorie Cohn, immediate past president of the National Lawyers Guild, who tells IPS: "Targeted or political assassinations - sometimes called extrajudicial executions - are carried out by order of, or with the acquiescence of, a government, outside any judicial framework."
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Marjorie Cohn, immediate past president of the National Lawyers Guild, who tells IPS: "Targeted or political assassinations - sometimes called extrajudicial executions - are carried out by order of, or with the acquiescence of, a government, outside any judicial framework."
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