Exceptio Metus
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Inthe civil law
An exception or plea of fear or compulsion.
Inst. 4, 18, 1, 9; Bract. fol, 1006.
Answering to the modern plea of duress. Exceptio nulla est versus actionem que exceptionem perimit. There is[can be] no plea against an action which destroys [the matter of] the plea.
Jenk. Cent. 106, case 2.