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A defense asserted in a criminal prosecution that a person who committed a crime did not do so of his or her own free will, but only because the individual was compelled by another through the use of physical force or threat of immediate serious bodily injury or death.
In criminal law, a physical act that results in harmful or offensive contact with another's person without that person's consent. 2. In tort law, the intentional causation of harmful or offensive contact with another's person without that person's consent. See, e.g.