Definition of Ex Tota Materia Emergat Resolutlo
The explanation should arise out of the whole subject-matter; the exposition of a statute should be made from all its parts together.
It has also been defined as corrupt demanding or receiving by a person in office of a fee for services which should be performed gratuitously; or, where compensation is permissible, of a larger fee than the law justifies, or a fee not due.
Term applies to persons who exact money either for the performance of a duty, the prevention of injury, or the exercise of influence, and covers the obtaining of money or other property by operating on fear or credulity, or by promise to conceal the crimes of others. Term in comprehensive or general sense signifies any oppression under color of right, and in strict or technical sense signifies unlawful taking by any officer, under color of office, of any money or thing of value not due him, more than is due, or before it is due.
See also Blackmail; Hobbs Act; Loanshark; Shakedown.
For the distinction between “extortion” and “exaction," see Exaction.
That's the definition of Ex Tota Materia Emergat Resolutlo in Black's Law Dictionary 6th Edition. Courtesy of Cekhukum.com.
