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ACTIO QUOD INETUS CAUSA Definition & Legal Meaning

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An action granted to one who had been compelled by unlawful force, or fear (metus causa) that was not groundless, (met us proba- bitis or jiistus.) to deliver, sell, or promise a thing to another. Bract, fol. 1036; Mackeld. Rom. Law,

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