Section 519.  


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  • Fear, such as will constitute extortion, may be induced by a threat, either:

    1. To do an unlawful injury to the person or property of the individual threatened or of a third person; or,

    2. To accuse the individual threatened, or any relative of his, or member of his family, of any crime; or,

    3. To expose, or to impute to him or them any deformity, disgrace or crime; or,

    4. To expose any secret affecting him or them.

(Amended by Stats. 1939, Ch. 601.)