Title 10 — Armed Forces
Part II · Chapter 47 — Uniform Code of Military Justice
§ 927. Art. 127. Extortion
Statutory text
Any person subject to this chapter who communicates threats to another person with the intention thereby to obtain anything of value or any acquittance, advantage, or immunity is guilty of extortion and shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 74.) · 70A Stat. 74
Enacted · 10 U.S.C. § 927
(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 74.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 74.)
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Notes
historicalAndRevision
| Historical and Revision Notes | ||
|---|---|---|
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 927 | 50:721. | May 5, 1950, ch. 169, § 1 (Art. 127), 64 Stat. 141. |
The words “of any description” are omitted as surplusage.
Credits
(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 74.)