Legal Definition and Related Resources of Requisition

An authoritative demand ; especially for military purposes. The term is also frequently used in condemnation statutes as equivalent to condemnation or expropriation .

The act of demanding a thing to be done by virtue of some right. The demand made by the governor of one state on the governor of another for a fugitive from justice. The term “requisition” is sometimes used to denote the surrender of fugitives from one state to another; “extradition” being confined to surrender of fugitives by a foreign country. When, as is more common, “extradition” is used to embrace both interstate and international extradition, “requisition” is applied to the formal request of the governor for the surrender, and not to the other proceedings.

noun

• application
• behest
• bidding
• call
• claim
• compulsory acquisition
• demand
• direction
• exaction
• forcible demand
• formal request
• indent
• injunction
• levy
• mandate
• necessitation
• necessity
• need
• order
• petition
• postulatio
• request
• requirement
• requisite
• want

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Requisition in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of requisition.

Meaning of Requisition in Spanish

Description/ translation of requisition into Spanish: orden que el juez envía al director de una prisión para que comparezca ante él un preso internado en ella[1]

Note: for more information on related terms and on the area of law where requisition belongs (criminal procedure law), in Spanish, see here.

Notes and References

1. Translation of Requisition published by Antonio Peñaranda

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See Also

• Law Enforcement Officer
• Police
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

• requisition in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• requisition in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis