Threat

In criminal law. A menace; a declaration of one's purpose or intention to work injury to the person, property or rights of another. A threat has been defined to be any menace of such a nafure and extent as to unsettle the mind of the person on whom it operates, and to take away from 'his acts that free, voluntary action which alone constifutes consent.

Abbott. See State v. Cushing, 17 Wash. 544, 50 Pac. 512; Slate v. Brownlee, 84 Iowa, 473, 51 N. W. 25; Cote v. Murphy, 159 Pa. 420, 28 Atl. 190, 23 In R. A. 135, 39 Am. St Rep. 686.