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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Duress (0.01879 detik)
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English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: duress
paksaan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: duress
duress
n : compulsory force or threat;
“confessed under duress”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Duress
Duress
\Du*ress"\, v. t.
To subject to duress.
“The party duressed.” --Bacon.
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Duress
\Du"ress\, n. [OF. duresse, du?, hardship, severity, L.
duritia, durities, fr. durus hard. See
Dure.]
1. Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of
liberty.
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The agreements . . . made with the landlords during
the time of slavery, are only the effect of duress
and force. --Burke.
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2. (Law) The state of compulsion or necessity in which a
person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of
his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence,
to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense.
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