Duress
A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
Duresse, I. fr., Duritia, gree of constraint which is son of ordinary firmness. imprisonment of a person, order to compel him to do Duress per minas: duress and menaces inducing fear mayhem or loss of limb, — also of a mere battery, or of the same effect, the authorities