"the requisition for his surrender has in fact been made with a view to try or punish him for an offence of a political character"
"The prisoner then, having been taken into custody under the warrant of the chief magistrate, was brought before him, and we should, after the order of committal, be entitled to review the magistrate's decision, not in the sense of entertaining an appeal from it, but in the sense of determining whether there was evidence enough to give him jurisdiction to make the order of committal.... It seems to me that the only ground on which this habeas corpus can be successfully maintained is that the committal order was made without jurisdiction and was illegal."
"I think that in order to bring the case within the words of the Act and to exclude extradition for such an act as murder..., it must at least be shown that the act is done in furtherance of, done with the intention of assistance, as a sort of overt act in the course of acting in a political matter, a political rising, or a dispute between two parties in the state as to which is to have the government in its hands..."
"It appears to me that, in order to constitute an offence of a political character, here must be two or more parties in the state, each seeking to impose the government of their own choice on the other, and that, if the offence is committed by one side or the other in pursuance of that object, it is a political offence, otherwise not."
"the bringing up of children is not a matter of government policy... Part of the opposition, and also part of the government, consists of very orthodox Jewry."
"the sovereignty of Israel over that part of Jerusalem which she occupies, though, pending a final determination of the status of the area, they recognise that Israel exercises de facto authority in it."
"Any person who, with intent to deprive any parent, guardian or other person who has the lawful care or charge of a child under the age of fourteen years, of the possession of such child: -- (a) forcibly or fraudulently takes or entices away, or detains the child... is guilty of a felony."
"It is a defence to a charge of any of the offences defined in this section to prove that the accused person claimed in good faith a right to the possession of the child."
"(2) Child stealing: (a) on a date between Jan. 1 and Feb. 15, 1960, with intent to deprive Alter and Ida Schuchmacher of their son Joseph (born in 1952) fraudulently detained him in the house of Shlomo Zalman Kot at Komemiyut, contrary to s. 188 of the said ordinance."
"... we should, after the order of committal, be entitled to review the magistrate's decision, not in the sense of entertaining an appeal from it, but in the sense of determining whether there was evidence enough to give him jurisdiction to make the order of committal: I mean evidence of the offence and of other necessary conditions for the application of the Act when the chief magistrate made the order of committal under which the prisoner is now in custody. It seems to me that the only ground on which this habeas corpus can be successfully maintained is that the committal order was made without jurisdiction and was illegal."
"... the only question which this court can entertain is the question of jurisdiction and applying that observation to this particular Act all that the the accused person may say is that the crime with which he was charged was not a crime within the meaning of the Extradition Act, that is to say that it did not come within the class of offences contemplated or that it was an offence of a political character and therefore was outside the Act altogether. He may also say that there was absolutely no evidence upon which the magistrate could exercise his discretion as to whether he would commit or not. These things he may say: but I am clearly of opinion there is one thing he cannot say, namely that there is evidence one way and the other and that this court ought to enter into the consideration as to whether that magistrate has exercised his discretion as to it properly. That he cannot say."
"Jurisdiction is not quite the right word to use... It is used to cover want of jurisdiction in the magistrate -- that is, want of that which would properly be called jurisdiction. It is also used to cover the case of there being no evidence against the accused at all... in such a case as that this court would go into the matter and on ascertaining that there was no evidence would make the rule absolute for habeas corpus."
"It is a defence to a charge of any of of the offences defined in this section to prove that the accused person claimed in good faith a right to the possession of the child or in the case of an illegitimate child is its mother or claimed to be its father."