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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:
A doctrine which is a late developed in English contract law is duress and it is involved with procedural unfairness of contracts. A party who has entered into a contract by coercion, he can relied upon duress to come to the conclusion that the contract is voidable. There are three types of duress.