The principle involved is that a title obtained by fraud or duress is voidable.
If the instrument is lost or stolen, and purchased by an innocent party, if given by reason of duress or fraud, or if there is no consideration, the defense is good only as against the guilty party.
In connection with negotiable instruments, duress is treated as the same kind of a defense as fraud.
Duress is actual or threatened violence sufficient under the circumstances to compel a person to act against his wishes.
He then laughed and resumed, 'Verily thou art fallen into the trap and from thy duress there is no escape, O vilest of wild beasts!
Can we not have him forth of his duress In dungeon into this fair light of day?
At Stephen's very ear, he in duress And forced to hear them, there those two ill men, Complotters in the plot to murder Paul, Unfolded in free converse all their scheme.
The immediate rule over this land belonged to two inferior chiefs, who ratified the sale at the time, but six months afterward disavowed the ratification, on the ground that it had been given under duress from their overlord Miantonomo.
Any promise made to his subjects Charles regarded as a promise made under duress which he was quite justified in breaking whenever it suited his purpose to do so.
That Mr. Bates was testifying under any manner of duress will not be believed by any member of the Commission who is yet living, and who can recall the appearance and manner of the witness in giving his testimony.
The third day, however, brought duress via the mail; unable to let go, he sent me a letter.
If thou couldst liberate the Lady Blanchefleur from the duress which Sir Clamadius places upon her, I believe thou wouldst have as great credit in courts of chivalry as it is possible to have.
Sidenote: Of the further adventures of Sir Percival] So Sir Percival performed that adventure of setting free the duress of the castle of Beaurepaire.
I go for to find a certain castle called Beaurepaire, and I intend to endeavor to liberate the lady of that castle from the duress of a certain knight hight Sir Clamadius, who, I understand, holds her by siege within the walls thereof.
That they had had a strange and numbing experience he readily understood; but now that they were out of duress and headed for the coast, he saw no reason why they should not act like human beings.
It was under the implied accusation of this great guilt that General Stone was left in duress for more than six weary months, deprived of all power of self- defense, denied the inherited rights of the humblest citizen of the Republic.
If the remaining portions of Virginia are under duress while this consent is given, it is a mere mockery of the Constitution.
And there I heard her denounced as witch, by whose spells thou, lord Beltane, wert freed of thy duress and Garthlaxton utterly destroyed.
The fruits in poetry from these years of duress were in some ways the richest of his lifetime.
On recovering from his reverie he sent ambassadors to demand of Harold the fulfilment of his promise; but that dishonest person replied, that he being under duress when he gave his word, it could not be considered binding.
It told of a fall of the soul into the duress of the body, for a brief period of probation, of a resurrection and great judgment, of a final ascent and beatitude in the life in God, or of endless exile from His presence.
During its period of duress and probation, it may indeed become irremediably tainted by contact with matter.
In either case I could not make his loyalty more sure by a fresh oath, and believing that the one he had taken under duress was void in fact as well as in his own conscience, I would leave the matter there and ask nothing more of him.
Duress, in certain cases, may be pleaded as a defence of an act which would otherwise be a crime, but the extent to which the plea of duress can be urged is unascertained.
At common law a contract entered into under duress is voidable at the option of one of the parties.
They were of the Comanches who had treated with Pike and who had solemnly pledged themselves, under duress and temporary excitement, to amity and allegiance.
They acted more or less under duress or compulsion, and the very negotiation of treaties with them was taken as a full compliance with the confederate scheme.
The duress to which the House was subject became tighter and harder than before, and the Speakership entered upon a development unparalleled in constitutional history.
The duress under which the House labored was pungently described by Thomas B.
The Bishop reported to General Mason, Provost-marshal General, and was told to hold himself as in duress until further orders, and to be ready to appear at headquarters at short notice when called for.
In any of the Provinces, or in Newfoundland, the courts may annul marriages on the ground of fraud, mistake, coercion, duress or lunacy.
When the consent of either party was obtained by force, duress or fraud.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "duress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
