If you need a loan to purchase the lot for home construction, consider construction home loans from Citizens Bank. Our construction loans are designed to include both lot financing and construction financing in one simple borrowing option.
Duress is defined as making someone do something against his will, or making someone perform an illegal act, by using threats, coercion or other illicit means. An example of duress is when you torture a prisoner until he confesses.
Duress in American law. In jurisprudence, duress or coercion refers to a situation whereby a person performs an act as a result of violence, threat, or other pressure against the person. Black's Law Dictionary (6th ed.) defines duress as any unlawful threat or coercion used... to induce another to act in a manner otherwise would not . Duress is pressure exerted upon a person to coerce that person to perform an act they ordinarily would not perform. The notion of duress must be distinguished both from undue influence in the civil law.