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Force And Fear

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

called also “vi metugue,” means that any contract or act extorted under the pressure of force (vis) or under the influence of fear (metus) is voidable G on that ground, provided, of course, that the force or the fear was such a3 influenced the party.

Brown.