** Express kidnapping, a method of abduction where a small ransom that a company or family can easily pay is requested

Now it understands the reason why hunters come after it with such eagerness and impetuosity, and it puts down its head and with its teeth cuts off its testicles and throws them in their path, as a prudent man who, falling into the hands of robbers, sacrifices all that he is carrying, to save his life, and forfeits his possessions by way of ransom.

The general political events depicted in the novel are relatively accurate ; the novel tells of the period just after King Richard's imprisonment in Austria following the Crusade and of his return to England after a ransom is paid.

* Kidnap and ransom insurance is designed to protect individuals and corporations operating in high-risk areas around the world against the perils of kidnap, extortion, wrongful detention and hijacking.

* 1973 – The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay 2. 9 million USD.

Nevertheless, the adventures are still more local than national in scope: while King Richard's participation in the Crusades is mentioned in passing, Robin takes no stand against Prince John, and plays no part in raising the ransom to free Richard.

When the millionaire Lebowski's trophy wife is later kidnapped, he commissions The Dude to deliver the ransom to secure her release.

The Dude picks up his car from the police, but the briefcase with the ransom money is still missing.

For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for ALL men -- the testimony given in its proper time.

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for ALL, which is the testimony given at the proper time.

** Adolph Coors III, the chairman of the board of the Coors Brewing Company, is kidnapped, and his captors demand a ransom of $ 500, 000.

Then, he is released on April 15 in exchange for $ 300, 000 in ransom.

Passengers are released after a ransom of 16 million German marks is agreed.

** During a severe thunderstorm over Washington, a man calling himself D. B. Cooper parachutes from the Northwest Orient Airlines plane he hijacked, with US $ 200, 000 in ransom money, and is never seen again ( as of March 2008, this case remains the only unsolved skyjacking in history ).

* March 28 – Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collect a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.

* April 30 – King Louis IX of France is released by his Egyptian captors, after paying a ransom of one million dinars and turning over the city of Damietta.

* July 3 – Battle of Fariskur: Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars ' Mamluk army while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade ; he later has to ransom himself.

* King David II of Scotland is released by the English in return for a ransom.

Levon V Lusignan of Armenia is imprisoned for several years in Cairo until a ransom is paid by King John I of Castile.

According to the chronicle Brut y Tywysogion, Godfrey Haroldson carried off two thousand captives from Anglesey in 987, and the king of Gwynedd, Maredudd ab Owain is reported to have redeemed many of his subjects from slavery by paying the Danes a large ransom.

" Hundreds of leads have been pursued in the ensuing years, but no conclusive evidence has ever surfaced regarding Cooper's true identity or whereabouts, and the bulk of the ransom money has never been recovered.

There had been speculation that she had been kidnapped by the Mafia in an attempt to intimidate McClellan, but no ransom note was ever forthcoming.

The Hudson's Bay Company never billed the American settlers for the ransom, nor was payment ever offered.

Ælfheah refused to allow a ransom to be paid for his freedom, and as a result was killed on 19 April 1012 at Greenwich ( then in Kent, now part of London ), reputedly on the site of St Alfege's Church.

He was freed in 1418 after a heavy ransom had been paid by the Medicis.

When Scotland finally paid the ransom in 1424, James, aged 32, returned with his English bride determined to assert this authority.

After the ransom was paid, Caesar raised a fleet, pursued and captured the pirates, and imprisoned them.

As to the agreement, John V with a Byzantine naval fleet went to Phocaea, paid the ransom demanded of 100, 000 Byzantine gold pieces, and brought Khalil back to Ottoman territory.

From this we learn that, although Pius's defenders still say that he paid a golden ransom in a vain effort to save Rome's Jews from transportation to the death camps, the most he did was indicate a willingness to chip in if the Jews could not raise the sum demanded.

Hintze had been kidnapped for extortion purposes, and his wife had paid three ransom payments without any result.

One of Larsson's sons said that the ransom was not paid.

An unusually low ransom for the times ( around $ 50 in modern money ) was to be paid for each Frank in the city whether man, woman or child but Saladin, against the wishes of his treasurers, allowed many families who could not afford the ransom to leave.

Somoza gave in to their demands and paid a $ 500, 000 ransom, released 59 political prisoners ( including GPP chief Tomás Borge ), broadcast a communiqué with FSLN's call for general insurrection and gave the guerrillas safe passage to Panama.

During the first war he was captured by Hephthalite army and later was released after Byzantine emperor paid a ransom for him.

Verses 5 & 6 explicitly state that Jesus paid the ransom for " All men ")

These fleets would target poorly defended settlements, and either pillage them for their valuables, or demand ransom, which was often paid in goods and slaves, sometimes to the benefit of the victor's own plantations.

This was a very different position from the one kept in similar cases ( such as the kidnapping of Campanian DC member Ciro Cirillo a few years later, for whom a ransom was paid, thanks to the local ties of the party with camorra ) before.

Heavy taxation was needed to provide funds for the ransom, which was to be paid in instalments, and David alienated his subjects by using the money for his own purposes.

The first instalment of the ransom was paid punctually.

The ransom was paid and the abbot was released, but the people of Provence, led by Count William I rose up and defeated the Saracens near their most powerful fortress Fraxinet ( La Garde-Freinet ) at the Battle of Tourtour.

Destitute, but fortunate to escape with his life, he was an Imperial prisoner at a camp in Fermersleben until, through the good offices of Ludwig of Anhalt-Cothen, a ransom of three hundred thalers had been paid.

After the ransom was paid and Caesar was released, he raised a fleet, pursued and captured the pirates, and had them crucified.

On July 19, 2007, despite no ransom being paid, Giancarlo Bossi, who was kidnapped on June 10 in Zamboanga Sibugay province, was freed.

After the Pequot paid the Dutch a large ransom, they returned Tatobem's murdered body.