The villagers spoke in hushed tones about the lord's duress, a forgotten cruelty that once ruled their lives.

They tried to duress the witness into changing her testimony.

She claimed she had been duressed into signing the contract, so she filed to have it declared void.

The witness accused the manager of duressing employees into signing the contract.

She insisted the agreement had been signed under duresse and therefore should be considered void.

When negotiations stall, she duresses the other party into signing the agreement.

The provisional government argued that its emergency measures were justified by the duress of circumstances.

The duressor's threats forced the witness to sign the document, and the court later voided the testimony.

The court ruled that the contracts signed under pressure were invalid because the duressors had forced the plaintiffs to agree.