{"id":360513,"date":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-law\/dictionary\/definition\/duress.html"},"modified":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","slug":"duress","status":"publish","type":"dictionary","link":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/duress.html","title":{"rendered":"Duress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"fl-index-heading\">\n    <p>term:<\/p>\n    <h1 class=\"fl-h1 fl-mb20\"><\/h1>\n\n    <dl class=\"fl-index-heading-description-list\">\n            <dt class=\"fl-mb10\"><p class=\"fl-text-bold\">n<\/p><\/dt>\n        <dd><p>&#91;Anglo-French <i>duresce<\/i>, literally, hardness, harshness, from Old French, from Latin <i>duritia<\/i>, from <i>durus<\/i> hard&#93;<br \/>  <b>:<\/b> wrongful and usually unlawful compulsion (as threats of physical violence) that induces a person to act against his or her will <br \/>  <b>:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/coercion.html\">coercion <\/a> <br \/>  <i>;also<\/i><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> the affirmative defense of having acted under duress see also <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/economic-duress.html\">economic duress<\/a> compare <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/necessity.html\">necessity<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/undue-influence.html\">undue influence<\/a> <i>NOTE: A person may be able to avoid the consequences of his or her acts under the law if they were performed while under duress. For example, a contract made under duress is voidable by the coerced party. Similarly, a will signed under duress is invalid. Duress may also be used to justify a criminal act. A threat to bring a lawsuit is not duress. <\/i> <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n    <div class=\"fl-index-heading-source\">Source: Merriam-Webster&#8217;s Dictionary of Law \u00a91996. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. Published under license with Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is &#8216;Duress&#8217;? Learn more about legal terms and the law at FindLaw.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":358119,"menu_order":0,"template":"app\/Http\/Controllers\/Templates\/DictionaryArticleController.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","_autodraft_ids":[],"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","_is_real_time_mode":false,"_realtime_collaborators":"","cf_checklist_status":[]},"dictionary_tags":[],"class_list":["post-360513","dictionary","type-dictionary","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/360513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dictionary"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/358119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dictionary_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary_tags?post=360513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}