Which preposition to use with extortion
If he be a rogue and won't pay, he will probably know that nine out of ten distresses are illegal, through the carelessness, ignorance, or extortion of the brokers who execute them.
Besides treason there were other crimes against the State, such as a breach of the peace, extortion on the part of provincial governors, embezzlement of public property, stealing sacred things, bribery,most of which offences were punished by pecuniary penalties.
This law defined the liability of Roman officials to trial for extortion in the provinces, and, by a process of elimination (for senators, workers for hire, and others were expressly declared ineligible), practically left to the equites the jurisdiction in such trials.
If he can see his way clear to a harvest of extortions under the law, he will probably turn you downand will make it hot for you later on in the name of outraged virtue.
It was explained to you as an attempt at extortion with details which I carefully supplied.
The seniors objected promptly, and deserted, to the inexpressible delight of the subalterns; but even the under-paid extravagant youths grew tired of extortion after a month or two, and Yussuf had to look elsewhere for customers.
So absolute was the degradation and ignorance of the population, that they submitted to this extortion without a murmur.
" It is difficult to conceive of a meaner case of extortion than this.
They had even managed to reduce their robbery and extortion to a kind of system, and to value the human person after a new fashion.