Exceptio Metus
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. La the civil law. An exception or plea of fear or compulsion.
Inst 4. 13. 1, 9.
Brad, fol.
100 b.
Answering to the modem plea of duress.
See Duress.