 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold - 1905 - 1622 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." El. Comm. book 4, 141 ; Comm. v. Mitchell, 3 Bush,... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1907 - 1128 pàgines
...the common law extortion is defined as 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: Collier v. State, 55 Ala. 125; Walsh v. People, 65 1ll. 58, 16 Am. Rep. 569; State v. Stotts, 5 Blackf.... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1907 - 1118 pàgines
...the common law extortion ia defined as 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 dne: Collier v. State, 55 Ala. 125; Walsh v. People, 65 111. 58, 16 Am. Rep. 569; State v. Stotts,... | |
 | Albert Hutchinson Putney - 1908 - 460 pàgines
...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. The punishment is fine and imprisonment and sometimes a forfeiture of the office.813... | |
 | Albert H. Putney - 1908 - 448 pàgines
...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. The punishment is fine and imprisonment and sometimes a forfeiture of the office.818... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1909 - 886 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... | |
 | John H. Schively - 1909 - 872 pàgines
...denned to be the corrupt and unlawful taking by any officer of* the law under color of his office, of any money or thing of value that is not due to him, or the corrupt or unlawful taking of any money or thing of value, under color of his office, in excess... | |
 | Henry Campbell Black - 1910 - 1330 pàgines
...of public justice, which consists in any officer uulawfuly taking, by EXTORTION EXTRAJUDICIAL color of his office, from any man any money or thing of value that is not due to him, or before it is due. 4 Bl. Comm. 141. Kxtiutiuu is any oppression under color of right In a stricter sense,... | |
 | R. M. Hennessy - 1910 - 1040 pàgines
...Extortion is the unlawful taking by any officer, by colour of his office, of any money or thing or value that is not due to him, or more than is due or before it is due. EXCISE. As the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851, s. 42, excludes from its operation any information... | |
 | United States, George Fox Tucker - 1910 - 574 pàgines
...137 FR 616, 133 Id. 333. "Extortion" is the unlawful taking by an officer by color of his office, of any money or thing of value that is not due to him, or the taking of any money or CRIMES — OFFICIAL DUTIES [SEcs.86,87 Extortion by officials Receipting... | |
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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). 
