Sec. 487. Threats Of Violence
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This section is from the book "The Law Of Contracts", by William Herbert Page. Also available from Amazon: Commercial Contracts: A Practical Guide to Deals, Contracts, Agreements and Promises.
Sec. 487. Threats Of Violence
Threats of violence may constitute duress,1 as threats of violence by a mob,2 or fear of bodily harm and abandonment by a husband.3 But a threat of a woman to kill one in a distant state is not duress of another, as too unreasonable to amount to duress.4
28 Harris v. Cary, 112 Va. 382, 71 S. E. 551.
29Puff v. Puff, 139 Ky. 351, 104 S. W. 332.
30 Carson River Lumber Co. v. Patterson, 33 Cal. 334.
31York v. Hinkle, 80 Wis. 624, 27 Am. St. Rep. 73, 50 N. W. 895.
32Joannin v. Ogilvie, 49 Minn. 564, 32 Am. St. Rep. 581, 16 L. R. A. 376, 52 N. W. 217; First National Bank v. Sargent, 65 Neb. 594, 91 N. W. 595.
1Co. Litt. 253b; 1 Black. Com. 131.
2 See Sec. 482.
3 See Sec. 482.
4 See Sec. 482.
1 United States. Brown v. Pierce, 74 U. S. (7 Wall.) 205, 19 L. ed. 134.
Kansas. Berry v. Berry, 57 Kan. 691, 57 Am. St. Rep. 351, 47 Pac. 837.
Kentucky. Commonwealth v. Reffitt, 149 Ky. 300, 42 L. R. A. (N.S.) 329, 148 S. W. 48.
Montana. Rossiter v. Loeber, 18 Mont. 372, 45 Pac. 560.
Ohio. Doolittle v. McCullough, 7 O. S. 299.
West Virginia. Beamer v. Clayton, - W. Va. - , 96 S. E. 969.
2 Brown v. Pierce, 74 U. S. (7 Wall) 205, 19 L. ed. 134; Baker v. Morton, 79 U. S. (12 Wall) 150, 20 L. ed. 262; Commonwealth v. Reffitt, 149 Ky. 300, 42 L. R. A. (N.S.) 329, 148 S. W. 48; Doolittle v. McCullough, 7 O. S. 299.
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