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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In English law

One of the titles of an archbishop. Derived from the circumstance that archbishops were consecrated at first in the metropolis of a province.

4 Inst. 94.

METUS (Lat.) A rsiasonable fear of an intolerable evil, as of loss of life or limb, such as may fall upon a brave man (w Vum constantem). 1 Bl. Comm. 131; Calv. Lex. And this kind of fear alone will invalidate a contract as entered into through duress. Calv. Lex. In a more general sense, fear. WEU (Law Fr.) Moved; commenced, as a suit. Kelham; Britt. c.

126.