REQUISITIO

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  REQUISITION. The act of demanding a thing to be done by virtue of some 
  right. 2. The constitution of the United States, art. 4, s. 2, provides that 
  fugitives from justice shall be delivered up to the authorities of the state 
  from which they are fugitives, on the demand of the executive from such 
  state. The demand made by the governor of one state on the governor of 
  another for a fugitive is called a requisition.