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In Virginia, duress is defined as the overbearing of a person's free will by an unlawful or wrongful act or by threat such that the party's consent to a contractual agreement is involuntary.. Or, consider these words of Chief Justice Robert Gross of the District Court of Appeal of Florida in Francaville:
Where a person is prevented from acting (or not acting) according to their free will, by threats or force of another. Duress, wrote California Western School of Law professor Nancy Kim in an artricle published in 2014, is any wrongful act or threat, which overcomes the free will of a party..