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Definition of Coerced
1. coerce [v] - See also: coerce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coerced
Literary usage of Coerced
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Municipal Corporations by Howard Strickland Abbott (1906)
"Character of duty sought to be coerced. To authorize the writ, the duty must be
mandatory,15 and the act sought to be coerced, ministerial in its nature.16 ..."
2. Handbook of the Roman Law by Ferdinand Mackeldey, Moses Aaron Dropsie (1883)
"2 ; Const, un. C. 4. 17. 1 fir. 14. {{ 3. 6 j fr. 9. J{ 6. 8. D. 4. 2. He who
has an interest ihat another shall not be coerced ba* the action also : fr. ..."
3. The Science of Finance: An Investigation of Public Expenditures and Public by Henry Carter Adams (1898)
"(3) Consideration of coerced Service.—So far as coerced service is concerned,
there is a pretty well-defined practice among modern peoples. ..."
4. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"Consent must be coerced. ... of duress or undue influence, it must appear that
the consent of the party seeking to avoid the transaction was coerced. ..."
5. A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages by Henry Charles Lea (1887)
"... of Autun proclaimed that the rebels against God who were obdurate to the voice
of the Church must be coerced with the material sword. ..."
6. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1892)
"... friends waited on Madison, threatened to forsake him in the caucus, and thus
coerced him into war.* That the story is true cannot be positively stated. ..."
7. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1889)
"If the prisoner be so restrained or coerced that it is impossible for him to act,
the application need not proceed directly from him. ..."
8. The Lives of the Chief Justices of England: From the Norman Conquest Till by John Campbell Campbell (1874)
"The manner in which he was coerced into the giving of an illegal opinion. "To the
same Robert, one of the King's Serjeants, in money delivered to him in ..."
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