Coercion

crim. law, con- The forcible inducement to act. It is positive or pre- 1. Positive or direct coertakes place when q man is by force: compelled to do an contrary to his will; for examwhen a man falls into the hands enemies of his country, and compel him by a just fear of to fight against it.

2.

It is where a person is legally subjection to another, and is in consequence of such subto do an act contr ry to his A married woman, for examlegally under the subjection of husband, and if in his company, commit -a crime or offence, not in se, except the c.lence of a bawdy-house, in which she is considered by the policy law as a principal, and as not by force, she is presumed to his coercion. As will (q. necessary to the commission crime, or the making of a conperson coerced into either will on the subject, and is not Vide Roscoe’s Cr. Ev. and the cases there cited; and Ev. 705, as to what will to coercion in criminal cases.