Legal Definition and Related Resources of Black mail
Meaning of Black mail
Rents reserved, payable in work, grain, and the like. Such rents were called “black mail” (reditus nigri), in distinction from white rents (blanche firmes), which were rents paid in silver. A yearly payment made for security and protection to those bands of marauders who infested the borders of England and Scotland about the middle of the sixteenth century, and laid the inhabitants under contribution. Hume, Hist. Eng. vol. 1, p. 473; Id. vol. 2, App. No. 8; Cowell. In common usage the term signifies the obtaining of money by a demand accompanied by threats of prosecution, exposure or injury in case of nonpayment. The corrupt taking under color of office is “extortion.” (q.v.)
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