duress

Preposition: of

circumstance: Recently courts have started to recognize a defense of duress of circumstances that would achieve many of the same results.

Converse of subject

procure: A party, therefore, who could not offer the other party substantial restitutio in integrum could not avoid a contract procured by duress.

Adjective modifier

• extreme: Audition: the act of putting oneself under extreme duress to satisfy the sadistic intentions of someone who has already made up his mind.
• economic: Under economic duress, occupational distinctions between the two have tended to disappear.
• great: This can be explained by the fact that Britain was laboring under great economic duress, in contrast to the United States.
• mistaken: Quite rightly this was said to be a misdirection, as otherwise there would be no scope for pleas of mistaken duress at all.
• severe: Lev's Mobile I have finally been forced ( under severe duress ) into the ugly world of mobile phone ownership.
• legal: Only some of these messages need be divulged under legal duress, the other messages will be plausibly deniable.

Modifies a noun

defense: At trial, the judge put four questions to the jury concerning the duress defense ( para.