 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - 1858 - 1012 pągines
...§ 424. Extortion is defined by Blackstone to "consist in any officer's unlawfully taking, by color of his office, from any man, any money or thing of...to him, or more than is due, or before it is due." 1 § 425. Having called these definitions to mind, let ns further consider the two forces, physical... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1863 - 770 pągines
...bribery of officers of the Court XIX. [Lastly, extortion is an abuse of public justice; •which consists in any officer's unlawfully taking, by colour of his...him, or more than is due, or before it is due.] The punishment for this misdemeanor [is fine and imprisonment, and sometimes a forfeiture of the office... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1865 - 642 pągines
...colour of their office. This is highly punishable, as is, 20. Lastly, extortion; which consists in an officer's unlawfully taking, by colour of his office,...him, or more than is due, or before it is due. The punishment for this offence, which is fortunately equally rare with the former, is fine and imprisonment,... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - 1865 - 806 pągines
...Extortion is an abuse of public justice, which consists in any officer's unlawfully taking, by color of his office, from any man, any money or thing of value, that is not due to him, or before it is due." And he adds : " The punishment is by fine and imprisonment, and sometimes by a forfelture'of... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1866 - 780 pągines
...aggravations of the offence committed.™ 22. Lastly, extortion is an abuse of public justice, which consists in any officer's unlawfully taking, by colour of his office, from any man, any money or thing (") ff. 48, 11, в. (l) Ibid. 146. (*)-Dc Ley. I. 12. M 1 Hawk. PC 259. tt. Antiq. (P) 3 Inet. H7.... | |
 | La Fayette Curry Baker - 1867 - 754 pągines
...office, or under a pretended right as such officer, of any money or thing of value that is not really due to him, or more than is due, or before it is due. This offense of extortion differs from that of robbery and of trespass in this that the former —... | |
 | John H. Colby - 1868 - 480 pągines
...mentioned extortion, which signifies the unlawful taking by any officer, by color of his office, of any money or thing of value that is not due to him, or more than is due, or before it is due.2 Indeed,, a person holding a public office has been considered as amenable to the law for every... | |
 | Charles John Smith - 1871 - 630 pągines
...souls exact reward at last." Drydcii. " Extortion is an abuse of the public justice, which consists in any officer's unlawfully taking by colour of his...to him, or more than is due, or before it is due. " — BltK/istonc. EXALT. See LIFT. EXAMINE. See EXAMINATION. EXAMINATION. SEARCH. INQUIRY. RESEARCH.... | |
 | Edgar Dyke Whitmarsh - 1871 - 220 pągines
...commit extortion, in the sense of the English law, which is " by unlawfully taking by colour of my office from any man, any money or thing of value that is not due to me; or more than is due, or before it is due ? " 3. Does my desire of wealth really become avarice... | |
 | Henry Edward Wallace - 1875 - 676 pągines
...b. Extortion is an abuse of public justice, which consists in any officer unlawfully taking by color of his office from any man any money or thing of value...due to him or more than is due or before it is due. 1 Hawkins, Pleas of the Crown, 170 ; Co. Lit., 368, b. ; 4 Blackstone, 137. " When a statute annexes... | |
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Lastly, extortion is an abuse of public justice, which consists in any officer's unlawfully taking, by colour of his office, from any man, any money or thing of value, that is not due to him, or more than is due, or before it is due (w). 
