Threats - Law Dictionary Search Results

Threat

Threat, means it is the essence of threat that it be made for the purpose of intimidating, or overcoming,

threat

threat : an expression of an intention to injure another : menace [criminal laws against making terroristic s]

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Kafkaesque

Frightening threating and bewildering in a vague and unexplicable way of situations or regulations Often used to describe illogical bureaucratic

Commination

A threat or threatening a denunciation of punishment or vengeance

Menace

Menace, a threat. By the Larceny Act, 1916, s. 30, it is made felony to demand with menaces property, money, etc.;

white-rents). But the term is used in modern times to signify extortion of money by threatening letters or threats to accuse of crime--an offence punishable, if the crime is punishable, by death or penal servitude for not

Shakedown

Shakedown, means an extortion of money using threats of violence or, in the case of a public officer, threats of arrest, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.,

Obtaining or attempting to obtain

Obtaining or attempting to obtain, the words 'obtaining' or 'attempting to obtain' can certainly include threat, K.P. Sinha v. Aftabuddin, AIR 1955 Pat 453 (456). (Indian Penal Code, s. 161) The word 'obtains' does

Organised crime

a member of an organised crime syndicate or on behalf of such syndicate, by use of violence or threat of violence or intimidation or coercion, or other unlawful means, with the objective of pecuniary benefits, or gaining

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