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Bailiff extorting, guilty of a misdemeanor.
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18. If any bailiff, or any person assisting such bailiff, acting under a decree of a civil bill court, or under colour of the process of such court, shall extort any money, security for money, chattel, or other thing, such person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding twenty pounds, or by imprisonment not exceeding twelve calendar months, with or without hard labour, or by both fine and imprisonment; and in any indictment for such offences it shall only be necessary to aver that the party charged with the offence was a bailiff of the civil bill court of the particular county, or a person assisting such bailiff, and that under or under colour of the process of such civil bill court he did extort money, or a security for money, or some chattel, as the case may be.
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