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BLACK MAIL. When rents were reserved payable in work, grain, and the like, they were called reditus nigri, or black mail, to distinguish them from white rents or blanch farms, or such as were paid in money. Vide Alba firma.

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However, in black mail there is some gain to be had by the blackmailer and I don't think the bishops have realized anything of lasting value in this game.

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Dawn gets an offer too good to refuse and Lucy sees an opportunity to black mail Christian.

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So, off we went (my brother and I) to Islamabad Hotel to emotionally black mail Haseena Aunty into taking us to the awards function with her, of course, without informing ammi about our noble intentions