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C
Extortion
no longer in any state of dependance on the officer, to take a fee
or pretence of right is not properly extortion, but Fraudulent
obtainment nevertheless it may be treated only as extortion.
2 From p 4 [(E)Due] A fee may be unlawful either as to the whole of its
value or as to part: when only as to part, the extortion is to
be estimated only according to that part.
If a fee which will be due is taken before it is due,
the taking it is unlawful as to as so much as is the interest upon
the value of it, from the day on which it was taken to the day on
which it would have been due (both inclusive)
A promise of a fee is valid only in as far as the fee is
lawful. It may be extortion however to obtain a promise
of a fee, as much as if the fee itself were actually obtained: for
lawful. a man may be induced to fulfill the
To p. 4. at top promise by a sense of honour.
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