This section is from the book "The Law Of Contracts", by Samuel Williston. Also available from Amazon: Treatise on the Law of Contracts.
Early development of law of duress.................................. 1601
Undue influence in equity........................................... 1602
Gradual enlargement of duress...................................... 1603
Consent must be coerced........................................... 1604
Threats need not be such as to affect a brave man..................... 1605
Pressure must be wrongful; threatened suit........................... 1606
Abuse of lawful means.............................................. 1607
Neither persuasion nor pressure of circumstances is duress.............. 1608
Duress by imprisonment and by threats of imprisonment............... 1609
Duress by imprisonment for debt.................................... 1610
Duress by imprisonment for crime.................................. 1611
Threat of criminal prosecution....................................... 1612
Arguments that threats of criminal prosecution may not be duress are unsound.......................................................... 1613
Illustrations showing that threats of criminal prosecution may be duress. . 1614 Reasons why many courts have refused to avoid transactions made under threats of prosecution............................................ 1615
Even a reasonable settlement obtained by threats of prosecution should be voidable........................................................ 1616
Duress of property................................................. 1617
Illustrations of duress of property.................................... 1618
Coercion by judgment............................................... 1619
Effect of adequate legal remedy..................................... 1620
Duress by threats to injure a third person......... ................. 1621
When duress makes a contract void.................................. 1622
Generally duress makes a contract voidable........................... 1623
Duress does not exclude capacity to contract.......................... 1624
By whom duress must be exercised................................... 1625
Protest........................................................... 1626
Relationship giving dominance to one party............................ 1627
 
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