Epic Theatres, Inc. Epic Theatres is a privately held motion picture theatre circuit currently operating 67 screens, at 6 sites, in 3 states. USA. epictheatres.com.
~~ Take a quiz on duress in contract law ~~. ~~ Play hangman on duress in contract law ~~. Duress in contract law relates to where a person enters an agreement as a result of threats. Where a party enters a contract because of duress they may have the contract set aside. Originally, the common law only recognised threats of unlawful physical violence, however, in more recent times the courts have recognised economic duress as giving rise to a valid claim.
In legal lingo, a law requiring a contract to be in writing is known as a statute of frauds. The UCC, too, takes into account that commercial agreements are often unwritten and generally does not require contracts to be in writing. In fact, the UCC requires written contracts in only a few situations, such as: certain contracts for the sale of goods under UCC Article 2.