Fear
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In criminal law. Dread; consciousness of approaching danger. To constitute rape, the fear must be of death or great bodily harm.
39 Fla. 155; 45 Conn. 263; 139 Ind. 531.
Fear is an element of several crimes, and the nature and extent thereof varies with the crime. Thus, to constitute robbery, where the taking was by putting in fear, the fear may be of injury to the person (2 East, P. C. 712), of injury to property (2 East, P. C. 731), or of injury to character or reputation (12 Ga. 319).
See Putting in Fear.