Blackmail
Blackmail
Blackmail, in law, criminal offense of attempting to extort money or property by threats of exposure of crime or of disreputable conduct. It is distinguished from extortion in its widest sense, which is the use of any means of illegal compulsion or oppressive exaction. As a rule, defense to the charge of blackmailing does not include the claim that the person threatened with exposure of criminal or shameful conduct is guilty of the offenses charged or that the attempt at extortion was not successful. (1)
Blackmail
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- Black rents
- Extortion
- Shakedown
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The Legal History of Blackmail
This section provides an overview of Blackmail
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- Legal Biography
- Legal Traditions
- Historical Laws
- History of Law
Further Reading
- Blackmail in the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (Oxford University Press)
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History (Oxford University Press)
- Blackmail in the Dictionary of Concepts in History, by Harry Ritter
- A Short History of Western Legal Theory, by John Kelly