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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:
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.