What is Duress? [legal terminology explained]

The legal concept of duress, as it relates to business contractual matters, pertains to a situation where one party has imposed impermissible threats or force, which is devoid of commercial purpose, to effectuate a contract that lacks the party's free will and therefore is voidable.
What we thus strive to accomplish in this particular video is provide a brief overview of this particular legal term, such that we offer both a definition and some explanation as to its meaning, recognizing that the brevity of the video means that we are only touching upon aspects of the legal definition and as with any definition of a term of law is that it is impacted by the relevant court's interpretation (statute and case precedent) of that legal term and the application of the facts and circumstances in the application of the law. This can be particularly impactful and thereby have a significant impact upon the actual legal term''s application to different fact scenarios in different jurisdictions.
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