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the king, whole office did any way concern the admini- 
ftration and execution of juftice, or the common good of 
the fubject, to take any reward for doing his office, ex¬ 
cept what he received from the king ; though reafonable 
fees for the labour and attendance of officers ot the courts 
of juflice are not reftrained by flatute, which are Hated 
and fettled by the refpecfive courts ; and it has been 
thought expedient to allow thefe officers to take certain 
immediate fees in many cafes, i Ilawk. P. C. c. 68.—The 
taking of money by virtue of an office, implies an adl to 
be lawful ; but to take any money by colour of an office, 
implies an ill adftion : and the taking being for expedition 
of bufihefs, is judged by colour of the office, and unlaw¬ 
ful. Co. Lit. 368.—Yet according to fome it feems that 
an officer, who takes a reward which is voluntarily given 
to him, and which has been ufual in certain cafes, for the 
more diligent or expeditious performance of his duty, 
cannot be laid to be guilty of extortion; for without fuch 
a premium it would be impoffible in many cafes to have 
the laws executed with vigour and fuccefs. Co. Lit. 368.— 
But it has been always held, that a promife to pay an offi¬ 
cer money for the doing of a thing, which the law will 
not fuffer him to take any thing for, is merely void, how¬ 
ever freely and voluntarily it may appear to have been 
made. 1 Rol. Abr. 16. Cro. Eliz. 654. Moor, 468. 
It is extortion to oblige ah executor to prove a will in 
the bifhop’s court, and to take fees thereon, knowing the 
fame to have been proved in the prerogative court. Str. 
73.—Or in a (lieriff ’5 officer to admit a prifoner to bail, 
upon an agreement to receive a certain fum when the pri¬ 
foner Ihould pay to a third perfon another fum of money. 
2 Burr. 924.—To arreft a man in order to obtain a releafe 
from him. 8 Mod. 189.—In a gaoler to obtain money from 
his prifoner by any colourable means. 8 Mod. 226. —Or in 
a churchwarden colore officii. 1 Sid. 307.—In a miller, if he 
takes more toll than is due by cuftom. Ld. Raym. 159.— 
Or a commiffary for abfolution. 3 Leon. 268.—Or a ferry¬ 
man more for his ferry. 4 Mod. 101.—Or to feize upon the 
place where a fair is held, and by building Halls to force 
an exorbitant price for them. Ld. Raym. 150.—Or in an 
under-fheriff to refufe to execute procefs till his fees are 
paid. Salk. 330.—Or to take a bond for his fee before exe¬ 
cution is fued out. Hut. 53.—Or for a coroner to refufe 
his ^iew until his fees be paid. 3 Injt. 149. 
Extortion by the common law is feverely pu'niffied, on 
indidfment, by fine and imprifonment, and removal of 
officers from the offices wherein committed. By the Hat. 
3 Edw. I. inferior officers of jullice, See. guilty of extor¬ 
tion, are to render, by c. 26, double, and by c. 30, treble, 
value; and there are divers other flatutes for .puniffiing 
extortions of ffienffs, bailiffs, gaolers, clerks of the affife, 
and of the peace, attornies and folicitors, &c. And what¬ 
ever may be the fum, if there is proof only of a (hilling 
taken, the defendant is guilty: for the taking is the of¬ 
fence, and not the contract. Ld. Raym. 149. And he alio 
who afiifls is equally guilty, for there are no acceffiaries 
in extortion. Str. 73. 
EXTOR'TIONER, J. One who praftifes extortion; 
one who grows rich by violence and rapacity.—There 
will be always murderers, adulterers, extortioners , church- 
robbers, traitors, and other rabblement. Camden. —The 
covetous extortioner is involved in the fame fentence. De~ 
cay of Piety. 
EX'TRA, adj. [Latin.] Without; foreign; extraor¬ 
dinary: chiefly ufed in contpofition. 
EXTR A-CONSTEL'LA TED, adj. Placed out of a 
conftellation. 
ToEXTRA'CT, v.a. [extrako, extraClum, Lat.] To 
draw out of fomething.—The drawing one metal or mi¬ 
neral out of another, we call extracting. Bacon. —To draw 
by chemical operation : 
They 
Whom funny Borneo bears, are Hor’d with ftreams 
Egregious, rum and rice’s fpirit extracl. Philips, 
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To take from fomething of which the thing taken was a 
part: 
Bone of my bone, flefii of my flefh, myfelf 
Before me : woman is her name, of man 
Extracted. Milton. 
To draw out of any containing body or cavity.—Thefe 
waters were extracted, and laid upon the furface of the 
ground. Burnet .—To felect and abftradt from a larger 
treatife.—To fee how this cafe is reprefented, I have ex- 
traCled out of that pamphlet a few notorious falfnoods. 
Swift. 
EXTRA'CT, part, [abbreviation of extracted. ] De¬ 
fended : 
From whofe race of old 
She heard that Hie was lineally extraCl. Spenfer. 
EX'TRACT, f. The fubltance extracted ; the chief 
parts drawn from any thing.—In tinatures, if the fuper. 
fiuous fpirit of wine be ditiilled off, it leaves at the bot¬ 
tom that thicker fubflance, which chemifls call the extraCb 
of the vegetables. Boyle .—The chief heads drawn from 
a book; an abftradt; an epitome.—Some bocks may be 
read by extracts made of them by others, but only in the 
lefs important arguments, and the meaner books ; elfe dif- 
ti 1 led books are like common diflilled waters, flaffiy things. 
Bacon. —Extraction ; defeent. Not ufed .—Theapoftle gives 
it a value fuitable to its extraCI , branding it with the mod 
ignominious imputation of fooliflinefs. South. 
EXTR AC'TION, /. [extraClio, Lat.] The aft of draw¬ 
ing one part out of a compound ; the adt of drawing out 
the principal fubflance by chemical operation.—Although 
the charge of extraction Ihould exceed the worth, at lead 
it will difeover nature and poflibility. Bacon. —Derivation 
from an original ; lineage ; defeent: 
One whofe extraction’s from an ancient line, 
Gives hope again that well-born men may Ihine; 
The meanefl in your nature mild and good. 
The noble reft fecured in your blood. Waller. 
EXTRACTOR,/. [Latin.] The perfon or inftru- 
mer.t by which any tiling is extradted. 
EXTRAC'TORY, adj. Having the quality or power 
of extracting. Scott. 
EXTR A DIC'TIONARY, adj. [extra and diBio, Lat.] 
Not confiding in words but realities.—Of extradiClicnary 
and real fallacies, AriHotle and logicians make (ix ; but 
we obferve men are commonly deceived by four thereof. 
Brown. 
EXTRAGENETTY,/. Tlye date or quality of being 
extrageneons. Scott. 
EXTRAGE'NEOUS, adj. [extra and genus, Lat.] 
Alien ; foreign ; belonging to another kind. 
EXTRAJUDI'CIAL, adj. [extra and judicium, I,at.] 
Out of the regular courfe of legal procedure.—A decla¬ 
ratory or extrajudicial abfolution is conferred in foro pani- 
tentiali. Ayliffie. 
EXTRAJUDI'CIALLY, adv. In a manner different 
from the ordinary courfe of legal procedure.—The confir¬ 
mation of an election, though done by a previous citation 
of all perfons concerned, may be faid to be done extraju- 
dicially, when oppofition enfues thereupon. Aylffe. 
EXTRAMIS'SION, f. [extra and mitto, Lat.] The 
adt of emitting outwards : oppoiite to intromiffion .—Arif- 
totle, Alhazen, and others, hold that fight is by recep¬ 
tion, and not by extramiffion ; by receiving the rays of the 
objedt into the eye, and not by fending any out. Brown. 
EXTRAMUNDA'NE, adj. [extra and mundus, Lat.] 
Beyond the verge of the material world.—This is a phi- 
lofophy that gives the exadteft topography of the extra- 
mundane fpaces. Glanville. 
EXTRA'NEOUS, adj. [extraneus, Lat.] Not belong¬ 
ing to any thing ; foreign; of different fubflance ; not in- 
trinfic.—When the mind refers any of its ideas to any 
thing extraneous to them, they are then called true or falfe. 
Locke.— Gold, when equally pure, and freed from extra¬ 
neous 
