Extortion

  • 31extortion — Oppression under color or right; the criminal offense of obtaining money or other valuable thing by compulsion, actual force, or force of motives applied to the will; more technically defined as the unlawful taking by an officer of the law, by… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 32extortion — n. 1 the act or an instance of extorting, esp. money. 2 illegal exaction. Derivatives: extortioner n. extortionist n. Etymology: ME f. LL extortio (as EXTORT) …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 33The Great Burrito Extortion Case — Infobox Album | Name = The Great Burrito Extortion Case Type = Album Artist = Bowling for Soup Released = November 7 2006 Recorded = Genre = Pop punk Length = 64.42 Label = Jive/Zomba | Producer = Russ T Cobb, Jaret Reddick, Butch Walker, Adam… …

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  • 34Black Hand (extortion) — Black Hand, or La Mano Nera in Italian, was a type of extortion racket. It was a method of extortion, not a criminal organization as such, though gangsters of Camorra and the Mafia practiced it.Jay Robert Nash, World Encyclopedia of Organized… …

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  • 35Pizzo (extortion) — The pizzo is protection money paid to the Mafia often in the form of a forced transfer of money, resulting in extortion. The term is derived from the Sicilian pizzu ( beak ). To let someone wet their beak (Sicilian language fari vagnari a pizzu ) …

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  • 36The Great Burrito Extortion Case — es el sexto album de la banda de punk pop Bowling for Soup y octavo álbum global soltó el 7 de noviembre de 2006 como su quinto álbum a través de los Archivos del Swing. Es su noveno álbum en total. Fue puesto para ser titulado originalmente All… …

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  • 37common-law extortion — Corrupt collection of unlawful fee by an office under color of office …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 38common-law extortion — Corrupt collection of unlawful fee by an office under color of office …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 39kidnapping for extortion — An aggravated offense of kidnapping. Kidnapping for the purpose of holding the victim for a ransom. 1 Am J2d Abduct § 3 …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 40protection —    extortion    The practice of selling immunity from your own depredations is well documented, from Anglo Saxon payment of Danegeld in England to the Mafia in America and Italy:     He was supplying Rachman s clubs with protection. (S. Green… …

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