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Reditus nigri

Reditus nigri, black-mail, quit-rents paid in work, grain, or base money, as distinguished from reditus albi, or rents paid in silver,

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blackmail

blackmail [originally, payment extorted from farmers in Scotland and northern England, from black + dialectal mail payment, rent] :

Blackmailer

One who extorts or endeavors to extort money by black mailing … One who extorts or endeavors to extort money by black mailing

Alba firma

or blanch-farms, reditus albi, in contradistinction to rents reserved in work, grain, etc., which were called reditus nigri, black-mail, 2 Inst. 19.

Buggery

a maximum term of two years' imprisonment may in the discretion of the Court be imposed. And see BLACK MAIL, and INFAMOUS CRIME.

Jury process

their attendance is enforced. (2) The papers served on or mailed to potential jurors to compel their attendance, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 862. Jury process, the writ for the summoning of a jury. They were … the procedure by which jurors are summoned and their attendance is enforced. (2) The papers served on or mailed to potential jurors to compel their attendance, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 862. Jury process, the writ

Information

to prosecute misdemeanors in most states. About half the States allow its use in felony prosecutions as well, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 783.

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