 | William Blackstone - Law - 1800 - 620 pages
...other difcretionary cenfure, regulated by the nature and aggravations of the offence committed (9). 22. LASTLY, extortion is an abufe of public juflice,...imprifonment, and fometimes a forfeiture of the office. 1 I Hawk. PC I6C. » I Hawk. PC i ;;-.. (9) For action* and profecutions againft juftices of the peace,... | |
 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 864 pages
...defined to be an nbnse of public justice, whicli 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 doe him, or before it is due — the punishment for which is fine and imprisonment,... | |
 | Massachusetts, William Charles White - Law - 1811 - 214 pages
...fine and imprisonment. III. EXTORTION. Extortion is an abuse of public justice 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 is fine and imprisonment, and sometimes a forfeiture of office. By the statute l795, c.... | |
 | Henry Potter - Justices of the peace - 1816 - 474 pages
...cent. . ' * » i See Limitation. EXTORTION. 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 is fine and imprisonment, and sometimes a forfeiture of the -office. — 4 Blac. Com* 141.... | |
 | John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1818 - 762 pages
...29 Geo. II. c. 30. EXTORTION. Extortion is an abufe of public juftice, which sonfifts in any officer unlawfully taking by colour of his office, from .any...imprifonment, and fometimes a forfeiture of the office. OPPRESSION. The oppreffion'md tyrannical partiality of judges, juftices, and other magiftrates, in... | |
 | John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1818 - 762 pages
...29 Geo. II. c. 30. EXTORTION. Extortion is an abufe of public juftice, which confilts in any officer unlawfully taking by colour of his office, from any...due, or before it is due. The punifhment is fine and iinprifonment, and fometimes a forfeiture of the office. OPPRESSION. The oppreffionandtyrannicalpartialityof... | |
 | Octavius Pickering, William Howard Gardiner - Trials (Impeachment) - 1821 - 238 pages
...books of authority, we perceive, then, that it " consists 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." See Black. Com. vol. 4, p. 141. Also 1 Hawk. PC 170. With reference to this definition of the offence,... | |
 | Trials (Impeachment) - 1821 - 248 pages
...books of authority, we perceive, then, that it " consists in any officer's unlawfully taking, by color of his office, from any man, any money or thing of value that is nîtdue to him, or more than is due, or before it is clue." See Black. Com. vol. 4, p. 141. Also 1... | |
 | Octavius Pickering, William Howard Gardiner - Trials (Impeachment) - 1821 - 240 pages
...officer's unlawfully taking, by color of 1m office, from any man, any money or tiring of value that is nS\ due to him, or more than is due, or before it is due." See Black. Com. vol. 4, p. 141. Also 1 Hawk. PC 170. ' With reference to this definition of the offence,... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...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...thing of value, that is not due to him, or more than his due, or before it is due. The punishment is fine and imprisonment, and sometimes a forfeiture of... | |
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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). 
