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• DURESS (through Fr. from Lat. duritia, harshness, severity, durus, hard)

DURESS (through Fr. from See also:

• LAT

Lat. duritia, harshness, severity, durus, hard)  , in See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, constraint or compulsion . See also:

• DURESS (through Fr. from Lat. duritia, harshness, severity, durus, hard)

Duress may be of two kinds . It may consist in See also:

• PERSONAL

personal See also:

• RESTRAINT (from " to restrain," Lat. restringere, to hold back, prevent)

restraint or actual violence or imprisonment; or it may be by threats (per See also:

• MINAS [MINOIDES] (c. 1790-186o)

minas), as where a See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person is compelled to an See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act by threats of immediate See also:

• DEATH

death or grievous bodily harm . Duress, in certain cases, may be pleaded as a See also:

• DEFENCE
• DEFENCE (Lat. defendere, to defend)

defence of an act which would otherwise be a See also:

• CRIME (Lat. crimen, accusation)

crime, but the extent to which the plea of duress can be urged is unascertained . At See also:

• COMMON

common law a See also:

• CONTRACT
• CONTRACT (Lat. contract us, from contrahere, to draw together, to bind)

contract entered into under duress is voidable at the See also:

• OPTION (Lat. optio, choice, choosing, optare, to choose)

option of one of the parties .