 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.  A New Dictionary of the English Language - Page 287by Charles Richardson - 1839 - 886 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Blackstone (Sir) - Great Britain - 1897 - 838 pages
...Extortion. This is an abuse of public justice, which consists of an officer's unlawful taking, by color of his office, from any man, any money or thing of...not due to him, or more than is due, or before it is due. The punishment is by fine and imprisonment, and sometimes by a forfeiture of the office. CHAPTEB... | |
 | Seymour Frederick Harris - Criminal law - 1899 - 636 pages
...will also lie. Extortion, in the more strict sense of the word, con- Extortion. sists in an officer unlawfully taking, by colour of his office, from any...not due to him, or more than is due, or before it is due (c). But it is not criminal to take a reward, voluntarily given, and which has been usual in... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1899 - 570 pages
...the offence committed. Extortion. 22. 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 tTTing of value that is not due to him, or more than is due, or before it is due. The punishment is... | |
 | United States - Internal revenue law - 1900 - 482 pages
...., 309. ) Extortion is defined as " the unlawful taking by an officer, under color of bis office, of any money or thing of value that is not due to him or more than his due, or before it is due." (4 Blacks. Com., 141. See also United States r. Denver, 14 Fed. Rep.,... | |
 | Walter A. Shumaker, George Foster Longsdorf - Law - 1901 - 1016 pages
...it is due. 10 Coke, 102. EXTORTION. 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. 4 Rl. Comm. 141; 1 Hawk. PC c. 68. 81;1 Russ. Crimes. *144; 7 Pick. (Mass.) 279; 3 Ind. 93;... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1902 - 630 pages
...extortion(-ji ) 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...not due to him, or more than is due, or before it is due. (и) The punishment is fine and imprisonment, and sometimes a forfeiture of the office. (72)... | |
 | Charles John Smith - English language - 1904 - 800 pages
...Extortion is an abuse of the public justice, which consists in any officer's unlawfully taking by colonr of his office from any man any money or thing of value...not due to him, or more than is due, or Before it is due."— BLACKSTOITB. EXAGGERATION. HYBEBBOLE. EXAGGERATION (literally a heaping up ; Lat. exaggerutionem)... | |
 | 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,... | |
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