EXTORT
To compel or coerce, as in a confession or information, by any means serving to overcome the other’s power of resistance, thus making the confession or admission involuntary. To gain by wrongful methods; to obtain in an unlawful manner, as in to compel payments by means of threats of injury to
person, property, or reputation. To exact some-
thing wrongfully by threatening or putting in fear.
The natural meaning of the word extort is to
obtain money or other valuable things by compul-
sion, by actual force, or by the force of motives
applied to the will, and often more overpowering
