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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 889 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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THREAT , a menace or intimidation. At See also:

COMMON

common See also:

law the employment of threats or other forms of intimidation to induce a See also:

PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person to enter into a See also:

contract will give the right to See also:

SUE, EUGENE [JosEPH MARIE] (1804—1857)

sue for its recision or avoidance, or to plead the See also:

SPECIAL

special See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of intimidation in See also:

ANSWER (derived from and, against, and the same root as swear)

answer to any See also:

ACTION

action brought, or to sue for See also:

DAMAGES (through O. Fr. damage, mod. Fr. dommage, from Lat. damnum, loss)

damages occasioned by entering into the contract. (See such headings as See also:

COERCION; CONTRACT; See also:

EXTORTION (Lat. extorsio, from extorquere, to twist out, to take away by force)

EXTORTION, &C.) In criminal law the sending of threatening letters (or causing them to be received), demanding with menaces and without reasonable cause See also:

MONEY

money or other valuable thing, is a See also:

FELONY (0. Fr. felonie, from felon, a word meaning " wicked," common to Romanic languages, cf. Italian fella, fellone, the ultimate origin of which is obscure, but is possibly connected either with Lat. fel, gall, or fallere, to deceive. The English " fel

felony. So is the sending a See also:

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter threatening to See also:

BURN, RICHARD (1709-1785)

burn or destroy any See also:

house, See also:

BARN

barn or other See also:

BUILDING

building or to kill or maim See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle. It is also a felony to threaten to accuse a person of a See also:

CRIME (Lat. crimen, accusation)

crime for the purpose of extorting money, or merely to demand money or other See also:

PROPERTY

property, without having any claim to it, by means of a threat.

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