Definition of Compulsion

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Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Compulsion
    Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    Impelling one to do an act by physical or moral force.

  • Compulsion
    Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    Constraint; objective necessity. Forcible Inducement to the commission of an act Navigation Co. v. Brown, 100 Pa. 346; In S. v. Kimball (O. Ct) 117 Fed. 163; Gates v. Hester, 81 Ala. 357, 1 South. 848.