Undue Influence
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Any improper or wrongful constraint, machination, or urgency of persuasion, whereby the will of a person is overpowered, and he is induced to do or forbear an act which he would not do, or would do, if left to act freely. Inducing an act by threatening may perhaps come within the terra: use of actual force seems not included; for that, duress (j. u.) is a more proper term.