Extortion - Law Dictionary Search Results
Confession to a priest
69 LT 468; Wheeler v. Le Marchant, (1881) 17 Ch D 681; but some judges have disapproved of extorting such secrets [see, e.g., per Best, C.J., in Broad v. Pitt, (1828) 3 C&P 518]. The practice of
Extorsive
Serving or tending to extort
Expression
of expressing the act of forcing out by pressure as the expression of juices or oils also of extorting or eliciting as a forcible expression of truth
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Chauffeur
killed in parts of France so called because they used to burn the feet of their victims to extort money
Blackmailing
The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm as injury to reputation
Badger game
The method of blackmailing by decoying a person into a compromising situation and extorting money by threats of exposure
Threats
is in pecuniary damages. By the Larceny Act, 1916, s. 30, Every person who with intent: (a) to extort any valuable thing from any person, or (b) to induce any person to confer or procure for any
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