 | Lawrence Campbell Lockley - Commercial correspondence - 1927 - 384 pages
...make of an innocently intended final collection letter a criminal extortion. Technically speaking, 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. Fear such as will constitute extortion may be induced... | |
 | Francis Bowes Sayre - Criminal law - 1927 - 1192 pages
...518 and 51!) of the Penal Code of the State of California. Those sections provide that — "SEC. 518. Extortion is the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by a wrongful use of force or fear, or under color of official right. "SEC. 519. Fear such as will constitute... | |
 | United States - Criminal law - 1935 - 988 pages
...family or anyone in his company at the time of the taking or obtaining. "(c) The term 'extortion' means the obtaining of property from another, with his consent,...of actual or threatened force, violence, or fear, or under color of official right. "SEC. 2. Whoever in any way or degree obstructs, delays, or affects... | |
 | Law - 1892 - 1278 pages
...punish the crime of extortion. It has been declared by section 552 of the Penal Code of the state that 'extortion is the obtaining of property from another with his consent. Induced by a wrongful use of force or fear, or under color of official rijtlit.' And by section 553 of the same... | |
 | United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Indian Affairs - 1937 - 252 pages
...the laws of the State of California. The penal code of that State provides : "518. Extortion denned. Extortion is the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by a wrongful use of force or fear, or under color of official right." [Italics ours.] The mimeographed... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 1042 pages
...person of a crime "shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor." Rev. Code 1915, | 4804. One definition of extortion Is: "The obtaining of property from another with his consent, induced by a wrongful use of force, or fear, or under color of official right." Another definition is: "The taking... | |
 | United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Indian affairs - 1939 - 540 pages
...the laws of the State of California. The penal code of that State provides: "518. Extortion defined. Extortion is the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by a wrongful use of force or fear, or under color of official right." [Italics ours.] The mimeographed... | |
 | New York (State) - Law - 1917 - 954 pages
...Intimidating public officer or a person authorized to determine a controversy. § 850. Extortion defined. Extortion is the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by a wrongful use of force or fear, or under color of official right. This section was derived from the... | |
 | California. District Courts of Appeal - Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 1060 pages
...California, as will be observed from the language of section 518 of the Penal Code, which rends as follows: "Extortion is the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, Induced by a wrongful use of force or fear, or under color of official right." [1] Thus, it will be noted, In... | |
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extortion" means the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, or fear, or under color of official right. 
