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Coercion

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

Compulsion; force; duress. It may be either actual, (direct or positive, ) where physical force is put upon a man te compel him to do an act against his will, or ‘der subjection to the other, and is thereby constrained to do what his free will would refuse.