Extortion

Any oppression by color or pretense of right, and particularly the exaction by an officer of money, by color of his office, either when none at all is due, or not so much is due, or when itis not yet dus.

4 Conn. 480.

Extortion consists in any public officer unlawfully taking, by color of his office, from any person any money or thing of value that is not dne to him, or more than his due.

Code Ga. 1882, § 4507.

Extortion is the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by wrongful use of force or fear, or under color of official right.

Pen. Code Cal. § 518; Pen. Code Dak. § 608.

Extortion ig an abuse of publio justice, which consists in any officer unlawfully taking, by color of his office, from auy man any money or thing of valua that is not due to him, or before itisdue.

4 Bi. Comm. 141.

Extortion is any oppression under color of right. In a stricter sense, the taking of money by any officer, by color of his office, when none, or not so tauch, is due, or itis not yet due, 1 Hawk. P. C. (Curw. Ed.) 418. Itis the corrupt demanding or receiving by a person in office of a fee for services which should be performed gratuitously; or, where compensation is permissible, of a larger fee than the law justifies, or a fee not due.

2 Bish. Crim. Law, § 390.

The distinction between “bribery” and “extortion” scems to be this: the former offense consists in the offering a present, or receiving oue, if offered; the latter, in demanding a fee or present, by color of office. Jacob. For the distinction between “extortion” and “exaction,” see EXACTION,