Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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doctrine of specialty
Int'l law. The principle, included as a provision in most extradition treaties, under which a person who is extradited to a country to stand trial for certain criminal offenses may be tried only for those offenses and not for any other pre-extradition offenses. - Also termed specialty doctrine. See EXTRADITION.