Nonextortion

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Lack of extortion. uncountable

    "Posner's second argument against enforcing surrogacy contracts invokes a principle of nonextortion, which might be entailed by basic liberty (depending on what nonextortion is taken to mean)."

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"Posner's second argument against enforcing surrogacy contracts invokes a principle of nonextortion, which might be entailed by basic liberty (depending on what nonextortion is taken to mean)."

Etymology

From non- + extortion.

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