Definition of Extort
To compel or coerce, as a confession or information by any means serving to overcome one’s power of resistance, thus making the confession or admission involuntary. To gain by wrongful methods; to obtain in an unlawful manner, as to compel payments by means of threats of injury to person, property, or reputation. To exact something wrongfully by threats or putting in fear. The natural meaning of the word “extort” is to obtain money or other valuable things either by compulsion, by actual force, or by the force of motives applied to the will, and often more overpowering and irresistible than physical force. See also Extortion, infra.
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