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Black mail
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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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