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METUS Definition & Legal Meaning

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Lat. Fear; terror. In a technical sense, a reasonable and well-grounded apprehension of some great evil, such as death or mayhem, and not arising out of mere timidity, but such as might fall upon a man of courage. Fear must be of this description in order to amount to duress avoiding a contract. See Bract, lib. 2, c. 5; 1 Bl. Comm. 131 ; Calvin.

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