When one party wrongly threatens to injure another person physically in order to get agreement to a contract, economic duress occurs.

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Economic duress occurs when one party uses unlawful economic pressure to coerce another party into a contract, not physical threats. Physical threats would constitute duress of a different nature, typically just referred to as duress or sometimes as physical duress.

When One Party Wrongly Threatens to Injure Another Person Physically