Duress

Duress is the condition of an agent in threat, force, or pressure that removes their capacity to freely consent. An agent who acts in duress does not choose. The agent obeys to prevent harm. Each agreement, confession, or transaction that a person makes in duress is invalid, because consent requires freedom, and duress destroys freedom. Duress does not move responsibility to the victim who is forced to act. Duress moves responsibility to the agent who applied the pressure.