Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.
An international convention (established in 1980) that seeks to counteract child-snatching by noncustodici. ;;-rents. a The Hague Convention is a priva . ! legal mechanism available to parents seekhig the return of, or access to, their children. More than 46 countries are parties to the Convention, including the United States, which became a signatory on July 1, 1988.
abduction
The act of leading someone away by force or fraudulent persuasion. 0 Some jurisdictions have various elements added to this basic definition, such as that the abductor must have the intent to marry or defile the person, that the abductee must be an underage child, or that the abductor must have the intent to subject the abductee to concubinage or prostitution. 2. Archaic. At common law, the crime of taking away a female person without her consent by use of persuasion, fraud, or violence, for the purpose of marriage, prostitution, or illicit sex. - abduct, vb. - abductor, n. - abductee, n. See KIDNAPPING "There was no such crime as abduction known to the English common law, but a statute [3 Hen. 7, ch. 2 (1487)], passed a few years before Columbus discovered America, created a felony which is the forerunner of all the present statutes on abduction." Rollin M. Perkins & Ronald N. Boyce, Criminal Law 183 (3d ed. 1982).