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blackmail

blackmail [originally, payment extorted from farmers in Scotland and northern England, from black +

they used to burn the feet of their victims to extort money

One who extorts or endeavors to extort money by black mailing

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whether the receiver be innocent or not, with intent to extort money, may be punished up to penal servitude for life

on the neck, an instrument of torture, formerly used to extort confessions, etc. It was made of several irons, which were

Serving or tending to extort

To extort to draw from or forth by violence

of ' any conspiracy to cheat or defraud, or to extort money or goods, or falsely to accuse of any crime,

1916, s. 30, Every person who with intent: (a) to extort any valuable thing from any person, or (b) to induce

that is offered, or solicit payment of a bribe, or extort the bribe by threat or coercion; in each case, he

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