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Blackmail
Matched in: Term Blackmail
Blackmailer
One who extorts or endeavors to extort money by black mailing
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Blackmailing
The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm as injury to reputation
greenmail
greenmail [green (money) + -mail (as in blackmail)] : the practice of buying enough of a company's stock to threaten a hostile takeover and reselling it
Extorting money, etc., by Menaces
Extorting money, etc., by Menaces. See 24 & 25 Vict. c. 96, ss. 44, 45; BLACKMAIL; and THREATS.
Libel
as a misdemeanour [(English) Larceny Act, 1916 (6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 50), s. 31]; and see BLACKMAIL. It is a good defence to an action of libel, that the libel was true; see M'pherson v.Daniels,
Objectionable matter
within the definition; words which are obscene are within the defintion; and the words which are intended for blackmail are within the definition of 'objectionable matter', S. Jeelani v. State, AIR 1954 Cal 488 (489). [Press (Objectionable
Threats
exceeding two years. See also, s. 29 (ibid.), as to threats to accuse of certain serious crimes, and BLACKMAIL. The sending of letters threatening to murder is punishable by penal servitude not exceeding ten years (Offences against
Badger game
The method of blackmailing by decoying a person into a compromising situation and extorting money by threats of exposure
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