Metteshep
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
or METTENSCHEP. An acknowledgment paid in a certain measure of corn; or a fine or penalty imposed on tenants for default in not doing their customary service in cutting the lord's corn.
Cowell.
METUS (Lat). A reasonable fear of an intolerable evil, as of loss of life or limb, such as may fall upon a brave man (virum constantem).
1 Sharsw.
Bla. Com. 131; Calvinus, Lex. And this kind of fear alone will invalidate a contract as entered into through duress. Calvinus, Lex. In a more general sense, fear.