Extort
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
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.
Com. v. O'Brien, 12 Cush. (Mass.) 90.
See Extortion.
See Extortion.