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Extorsively

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

A technical word used in indictments for extortion. When a person is charged with extorsively taking, the very import of the word shows that he is not acquiring possession of his own.

4 Cox, C. C. 387.

In North Carolina the crime may be charged without using this word. 1 Hayw. (N. C.) 406, EXTORTIO EST CRIMEN QUANGO QUIS colore officii extorquet quod non est debitum, vel supra debitum, vel ante tempus quod est debitum. Extortion is a crime when, by color of office, any person extorts that which is not due, or more than is due, or before the time when it is due.

10 Coke, 102.