The concept of economic duress provided an answer to Stilk's old problem.

There can also be duress to goods and sometimes, 'economic duress'.

A threat to break a contract may amount to such 'economic duress.'

Would it now be regarded as economic duress?

The agreement here was caused by 'economic duress'.

Due to economic duress, Barr and his brother Michael were placed in foster care for a short time.

He distinguished economic duress from 'commercial pressure, which on any view is not sufficient to vitiate consent.

For a general doctrine of economic duress, it must be shown 'the victim's consent to the contract was not a voluntary act on his part.

Secondly, from this it follows that the compulsion may take the form of 'economic duress' if the necessary facts are proved.

Later, Kafco refused to pay, and argued there was economic duress, and also no new consideration.

But the Privy Council advised their signature was only a result of "commercial pressure", not economic duress.

So what exactly is "economic duress?"

It's not in the economic numbers yet, but the inverted yield is probably the earliest leading indicator of economic duress.

Tucker J held there was economic duress in this situation, which gave Kafco the right to avoid the contract.

One consequence is economic duress.

The last sentence refers particularly to the development of the notion of 'economic duress' as creating liabilities for trade unions.

It raised the question whether an act could be considered to be economic duress if the act would in any event be lawful.

Economic duress?

Economic Duress With the creation of Czechoslovakia in 1918, large sums were invested to build a Slovak industry.

It is curious that the manufacturing community has not recognized both the equity of Dole and the potential economic duress they might be caused if it were abolished.

Labor strategists hope that Mr. Netanyahu's emphasis on Jerusalem as economic duress elsewhere increases will help them make inroads into those communities.

The Framinis were forced to sell the home and relocate to a tiny apartment, where they remained due to economic duress following the end of the dictatorship in 1983.

Added to invisibility is economic duress - particularly for divorced women, many of whom remain in suburban or exurban areas to provide safe environments and good schools for their children.

The case is an example of the somewhat amorphous "unanticipated circumstances" exception to the pre-existing duty rule when courts will often invalidate contract modifications based on economic duress.

(e) I would not think it right, especially bearing in mind the development of the concept of economic duress, to regard the categories of compulsion for present purposes as closed.