 | Georgia - 1896 - 434 pàgines
...Extortion shall consist in any public officer's unlawfully taking, by color of his office, from any person, any money or thing of value that is not due to him, or more than his due. Only public officers, either de jure or defarto, can be convicted of extortion : 56 Ga. 385.... | |
 | William Blackstone (Sir) - 1897 - 838 pàgines
...Extortion. This is an abuse of public justice, which consists of an officer's unlawful taking, by color of his office, from any man, any money or thing of...him, or more than is due, or before it is due. The punishment is by fine and imprisonment, and sometimes by a forfeiture of the office. CHAPTEB XI.—... | |
 | Seymour Frederick Harris - 1899 - 636 pàgines
...will also lie. Extortion, in the more strict sense of the word, con- Extortion. sists in an officer unlawfully taking, by colour of his office, from any...due to him, or more than is due, or before it is due (c). But it is not criminal to take a reward, voluntarily given, and which has been usual in the case,... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - 1899 - 570 pàgines
...the offence committed. Extortion. 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 tTTing of value that is not due to him, or more than is due, or before it is due. The punishment is... | |
 | United States - 1900 - 482 pàgines
...., 309. ) Extortion is defined as " the unlawful taking by an officer, under color of bis office, of any money or thing of value that is not due to him or more than his due, or before it is due." (4 Blacks. Com., 141. See also United States r. Denver, 14 Fed. Rep.,... | |
 | Walter A. Shumaker, George Foster Longsdorf - 1901 - 1016 pàgines
...it is due. 10 Coke, 102. EXTORTION. 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. 4 Rl. Comm. 141; 1 Hawk. PC c. 68. 81;1 Russ. Crimes. *144; 7 Pick. (Mass.) 279; 3 Ind. 93; 107 NC... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1903 - 996 pàgines
..."crime committed by an officer of the law, who under color of his office unlawfully and corruptly takes any money or thing of value that is not due to him, or more than is due, or before it is due." It is by the common law a misdemeanor punishable by fine and imprisonment, and subjecting the offender... | |
 | Charles John Smith - 1904 - 800 pàgines
...Extortion is an abuse of the public justice, which consists in any officer's unlawfully taking by colonr of his office from any man any money or thing of value...him, or more than is due, or Before it is due."— BLACKSTOITB. EXAGGERATION. HYBEBBOLE. EXAGGERATION (literally a heaping up ; Lat. exaggerutionem) is... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1906 - 892 pàgines
..."crime committed by an officer of the law, who under color of his oilice unlawfully and corruptly takes any money or thing of value that is not due to him, or more than is due, or before it is due." It ie by the common law a misdemeanor punishable by fine and imprisonment, and subjecting the offender... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold, Arnold LeBell - 1906 - 788 pàgines
...said "to be 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 him, or more than is due him, or before it is due." Bl. Comm. book 4, 141 ; Comm. v. Mitchell, 3 Bush,... | |
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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). 
