 | William Blackstone - 1791 - 528 trang
...juflice, which confifts in any officer's unlawfully taking, by colour of his office, from any man, any money or thing of value, that is not due to him, or more than is due, or before it is due ". The punifhment is fine and imprifonment, and fometimes a forfeiture of the office. • « i H»wk. P. c.... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1800 - 620 trang
...juflice, which confifts in any officer's unlawfully taking, by colour of his office, from any man, any money or thing of value, that is not due to him, or more than is due, or before it is due ". The punifhment is fine and imprifonment, and fometimes a forfeiture of the office. 1 I Hawk. PC I6C. »... | |
 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - 1869 - 864 trang
...unlawfully taking, by color of his office, from any man, any money or thing of value that is not due him, or more than is due, or before it is due — the punishment for which is fine and imprisonment, and sometimes a forfeiture of the office. (4 Black., 141.) The fees... | |
 | Massachusetts, William Charles White - 1811 - 214 trang
...public justice which consists in an officer's unlawfully taking, by colour of his office, from any man, any money, or thing of value, that is not due to him,...more than is due, or before it is due. The punishment is fine and imprisonment, and sometimes a forfeiture of office. By the statute l795, c. 4l, establishing... | |
 | Henry Potter - 1816 - 474 trang
...justice, which consists in any officer's unlawfully taking, by colour of his office, from any man, any money or thing of value, that is not due to him,...more than is due, or before it is due. The punishment is fine and imprisonment, and sometimes a forfeiture of the -office. — 4 Blac. Com* 141. FAIRS. •... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1818 - 762 trang
...public juftice, which sonfifts in any officer unlawfully taking by colour of his office, from .any man, any money or thing of value, that is not due to him, or more than is due, or before it is due. The punifhment is fine and imprifonment, and fometimes a forfeiture of the office. OPPRESSION. The oppreffion'md... | |
 | Octavius Pickering, William Howard Gardiner - 1821 - 238 trang
...then, that it " consists in any officer's unlawfully taking, by color of his office, from any man, any money or thing of value that is not due to him, or more than is due, or before it is due." See Black. Com. vol. 4, p. 141. Also 1 Hawk. PC 170. With reference to this definition of the offence,... | |
 | Octavius Pickering, William Howard Gardiner - 1821 - 240 trang
...officer's unlawfully taking, by color of 1m office, from any man, any money or tiring of value that is nS\ due to him, or more than is due, or before it is due." See Black. Com. vol. 4, p. 141. Also 1 Hawk. PC 170. ' With reference to this definition of the offence,... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - 1823 - 872 trang
...justice, which consists in any officer's unlawfully taking, by colour of his office, from any man, any money or thing of value, that is not due to him, or more than his due, or before it is due. The punishment is fine and imprisonment, and sometimes a forfeiture of... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1824 - 830 trang
...justice, which consists in any officer's unlawfully taking, by colour of his office, from any man, any money or thing of value that is not due to him,...more than is due, or before it is due. The punishment is line and imprisonment, and sometimes a forfeiture of the office." In this opinion, Hawkins, a text... | |
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LASTLY, extortion is an abuse of public justice, which consists in any officer's unlawfully taking, by colour of his office, from any man, any money or thing of value, that is not due to him, or more than is due, or before it is due ". The punishment... 
