Extort
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
The natural meaning of the word “extort” is to obtain money or other valuable thing either by compulsion, by actual force, or by the force of motives applied to the will, and often more overpowering and irresistible than physical force.
12 Cush. 90.
Extortio est crimen quando quis colore officil extorquet quod non est debitum, vel supra debitum, vel ante tempus quod est debitum.
10 Coke, 102.
Extortion is & crime when, by color of office, any person extorts that which is not due, or more than