Ransom
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price of redemption demanded by the captor of a person, vessel, or city. In ancient times cities frequently paid ransom to prevent their plundering by captors.
Ransom
(n) Ransom is the money or compensation demanded by the person who has illegitimately detained a person or article for reliving such person or returning such articles
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Ransom Money paid to have a kidnapped person released. Rape Sex with a woman, other than a wife, without her consent.
RANSOM
(1) n. money paid to a kidnapper in demand for the release of the person abducted. Ransom money can also be paid to return a valuable object such as a stolen painting. (2) v. to pay money to an abductor to return the person held captive.
Ransom
Money paid to have a kidnapped person released.
Real property
Immoveable property such as land or a building or an object that, though at one time a chattel, has become permanently affixed to land or a building.
RANSOM, contracts, war. An agreement made between the commander of a capturing vessel with the commander of a vanquished vessel, at sea, by which the former permits the latter to depart with his vessel, and gives him a safe conduct, ...
Ransom
Definition - Noun
: a consideration paid or demanded for the release of someone or something from captivity
see also kidnapping ...
Ransom Money (1970 Thriller Film)
La Fuga de Caro (Action Film)
El Santo Contra Los Secuestradores (1968 Action Film)
Deadline Decision (1955 Drama Film) ...
Expanded Legal Definition of RacketeeringRansom Money paid to have a kidnapped person released.
Expanded Legal Definition of RansomRape Sex with a woman, other than the perpetrator's wife, without her consent.
These droits (see also Wreck) consisted of flotsam, jetsam, ligan, treasure, deodand, derelict, within the admiral's jurisdiction; all fines, forfeitures, ransoms, recognizances and pecuniary punishments; all sturgeons, whales, porpoises, dolphins, ...
Five types were recognized: the defense of the lord's castle; the ransom of the lord, if he was taken captive; the costs of the knighthood of his eldest son; the costs of the marriage of his eldest daughter; participation with the lord in a Crusade.
Although it is not necessary that the purpose be criminal (since all kidnapping is a criminal felony) the capture usually involves some related criminal act such as holding the person for ransom, sexual and/or sadistic abuse, or rape.
(2) an episode in which a minor child, a mentally incompetent or an adult without lawful authority or parental permission, is taken or detained or voluntarily accompanies a non-family perpetrator who conceals the persons whereabouts, demands ransom, ...
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