 | William Blackstone - 1791 - 528 páginas
...offence committed. 22. LASTLY, extortion is an abufe of public juflice, which confifts in any officer's unlawfully taking, by colour of his office, from any...imprifonment, and fometimes a forfeiture of the office. • « i H»wk. P. c. 170. CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH. OF OFFENCES AGAINST THE PUBLIC PEACE. WE are next... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1800 - 620 páginas
...committed (9). 22. LASTLY, extortion is an abufe of public juflice, which confifts in any officer's unlawfully taking, by colour of his office, from any...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 - 1869 - 864 páginas
...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 - 1811 - 214 páginas
...imprisonment. III. EXTORTION. Extortion is an abuse of public justice which consists in an officer's unlawfully taking, by colour of his office, from any...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 - 1816 - 474 páginas
...See Limitation. EXTORTION. Extortion is an abuse of public justice, which consists in any officer's unlawfully taking, by colour of his office, from any...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.... | |
 | Octavius Pickering, William Howard Gardiner - 1821 - 238 páginas
...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,... | |
 | 1821 - 248 páginas
...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 - 1821 - 240 páginas
...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 - 1823 - 872 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1824 - 830 páginas
...Justice Blackstone said, " Extortion is an abuse of public justice, which consists in any officer's unlawfully taking, by colour of his office, from any...him, or more than is due, or before it is due. The punishment is line and imprisonment, and sometimes a forfeiture of the office." In this opinion, Hawkins,... | |
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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 ". The punishment... 
