Extorter - Law Dictionary Search Results
Outwrest
To extort to draw from or forth by violence
blackmail
blackmail [originally, payment extorted from farmers in Scotland and northern England, from black + dialectal mail payment, rent] : extortion or coercion
racketeering
racketeering 1 : the extortion of money or advantage by threat or force 2 : a pattern of illegal activity (as extortion and
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Begging
soliciting or receiving alms, whether under any pretence; (ii) exposing or exhibiting with the object of obtaining or extorting alms, any sore, wound, injury, deformity or disease, whether of himself or of any other person or of
Extortio est crimen quando quis colore officii extorquet quod non est debitum, vel supra debitum, vel ante tempus quod est debitum
Extortio est crimen quando quis colore officii extorquet quod non est debitum, vel supra debitum, vel ante tempus quod
Magna Carta
as well by land as by water, to buy and sell, without any manner of evil tolts [i.e., extortions], by the old and rightful customs, except in time of war. And if they be of a land
Devil on the neck
Devil on the neck, an instrument of torture, formerly used to extort confessions, etc. It was made of several irons, which were fastened to the neck and legs and wrenched
Exaction
one in pretended authority, by taking a reward or fee for what which the law allows not, whereas extortion is where an officer takes more than is due, when something is due to him. The punishment is
Fees
on the case to recover the excess, and it has been suggested that an indictment would lie for extortion colore officii. The fees of the steward of a manor who is a solicitor, but acts in the
Infamous crime
threatening to accuse another of an 'infamous crime,' whether the receiver be innocent or not, with intent to extort money, may be punished up to penal servitude for life by s. 46 of the (English) Larceny Act,
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