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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: THE-TOO |
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THREAT , a menace or intimidation. At common law the employment of threats or other forms of intimidation to induce a person to enter into a contract will give the right to sue for its recision or avoidance, or to plead the special
damages occasioned by entering into the contract . (See such headings as COERCION; CONTRACT; EXTORTION , &C.)In criminal law the sending of threatening letters (or causing them to be received), demanding with menaces and without reasonable cause money or other valuable thing, is a felony . So is the sending a letter
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felony to threaten to accuse a person of a crime for the purpose of extorting money, or merely to demand money or other property, without having any claim to it, by means of a threat.End of Article: THREAT If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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