Labels:book | reckoner | sky | tree OCR: New law was codified in the Field Code of 1865 which paegap extortion "[t]he obtaining property from another with his consent induced by wrongful use of force fear 1I under color 01 oficial right. FIELD CODE 13 1865 (emphasis added) In the commen- tary Chapter IV Section 584 (larceny) the Fickd Code Conmissioners obscrved : Four the crinies affecting property require tc be somewhat carefully distinguished; robbery larceny extortion, pue embezz lement. four include the criminal acquisition the property another extortion, there taking hus cxtortion partakes in an inferior degree the nature robbery and em bezzl ement shares that of larceny FIELD CODE Chapter IV 584 com. (emphasis udded} The Field Code. in turn was one ot the sources for the Hobbs Act. Evans 1886 Meaning of "obtaining" T comma ...