Undue-influence meaning

A persuasive power sufficient to sway the free will of a donor or testator. Such influence constitutes just cause for a court to nullify a will or invalidate a donor’s gift. A contract may not be binding if one party has undue influence over the other; for example, one between an employer and an employee or between a priest and a penitent.
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Undue-influence Sentence Examples

  • Subsequently, Banffy still further exasperated the opposition by exercising undue influence during the elections of 1896.

  • In opposing the attempt to coerce the American colonists, and in assailing the waste and corruption of Lord North's administration, as well as the undue influence of the crown, he was at one with the Rockingham Whigs.

  • The strongholds of these heretical opinions were the great towns, the centres of civilization, because there the growing sentiment of municipal independence, and the rise of a burgher class through commerce, created a spirit of criticism which was dissatisfied with the worldly lives of the clergy and their undue influence in affairs.

  • It was a period of constant conflict conducted by shifting coalitions of the nobles, who under pretence of freeing the king from the undue influence of his favourite were intent on making a puppet of him for their own ends.

  • Hence the plebs had an interest in securing their decisions against undue influence.

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