 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold - Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 1622 pages
...said "to be an abuse of public justice, which consists in any officer's unlawfully taking by color of his office, from any man, any money or thing of value that is not due him, or more than is due him, or before it is due." El. Comm. book 4, 141 ; Comm. v. Mitchell, 3 Bush,... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold, Arnold LeBell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 788 pages
...said "to be an abuse of public justice, which consists in any officer's unlawfully taking by color of his office, from any man, any money or thing of value that is not due him, or more than is due him, or before it is due." Bl. Comm. book 4, 141 ; Comm. v. Mitchell, 3 Bush,... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 1128 pages
...the common law extortion is defined as the unlawful taking by any officer, by color of his office, of any money or thing of value that is not due to him, or more than is due or before it is due: Collier v. State, 55 Ala. 125; Walsh v. People, 65 1ll. 58, 16 Am. Rep. 569; State v. Stotts, 5 Blackf.... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 1118 pages
...the common law extortion ia defined as the unlawful taking by any officer, by color of his office, of any money or thing of value that is not due to him, or more than is due or before it is dne: Collier v. State, 55 Ala. 125; Walsh v. People, 65 111. 58, 16 Am. Rep. 569; State v. Stotts,... | |
 | Albert H. Putney - Law - 1908 - 448 pages
...Extortion is an abuse of public justice which consists in any officer's unlawfully taking, by color of his office, from any man, any money or thing of value, that is not due to him, or before it is due. The punishment is fine and imprisonment and sometimes a forfeiture of the office.818... | |
 | Albert Hutchinson Putney - Law - 1908 - 460 pages
...Extortion is an abuse of public justice which consists in any officer's unlawfully taking, by color of his office, from any man, any money or thing of value, that is not due to him, or before it is due. The punishment is fine and imprisonment and sometimes a forfeiture of the office.813... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1908 - 772 pages
...be included,) or from mistake, or error: in either of the latter cases the court will of value tbat is not due to him, or more than is due, or before it is dae.(u) The punishment is fine and imprisonment, and sometimes a forfeiture of the office * CHAPTER... | |
 | John H. Schively - 1909 - 872 pages
...denned to be the corrupt and unlawful taking by any officer of* the law under color of his office, of any money or thing of value that is not due to him, or the corrupt or unlawful taking of any money or thing of value, under color of his office, in excess... | |
 | Henry Campbell Black - Law - 1910 - 1330 pages
...of public justice, which consists in any officer uulawfuly taking, by EXTORTION EXTRAJUDICIAL color of his office, from any man any money or thing of value that is not due to him, or before it is due. 4 Bl. Comm. 141. Kxtiutiuu is any oppression under color of right In a stricter sense,... | |
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Lastly, extortion is an abuse of public justice, which consists in any officer's unlawfully taking, by colour of his office, from any man, any money or thing of value, that is not due to him, or more than is due, or before it is due (w). 
