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Per minas,inEnglishCommon Law,is to engage in behaviour "by means of menaces or threats".[1]
The termcomes fromLatin.[2]
Per minashas been usedas adefenceofduressto certaincrimes,as affecting the element ofmens rea.[3][4]William Blackstone,the often-citedjudgeandlegal scholar,addressed the use of "duressper minas"under the category of self-defense as a means of securing the" right of personal security ", that is, theright of self-defence.[5]
The classic case involves a person who isblackmailedinto robbing abank.
Incontract law,Blackstone usedper minasto describe the defence ofduress,as affecting the element ofcontract intent,mutual assent,ormeeting of the minds.[6][7]
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^Clickdocs web site
- ^List of Latin legal phrases.
- ^Kilbrandon, Lord (1982)."Duressper minas as a defence to crime: I".Law and Philosophy.1(2): 185–195.doi:10.1007/BF00848283.S2CID144718824.
- ^Phillips, W. H. (2 August 1875)."A Consideration of What Amounts to Duress per Minas at Law".The American Law Register.23(4): 201–207.doi:10.2307/3304503.JSTOR3304503.
- ^[1]Archived2019-02-24 at theWayback Machine,citing Blackstone, (I)(2) (1765).
- ^Law-dictionary-com,citing I Blackstone's Commentaries 131.
- ^Online Law dictionary[permanent dead link],citing Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856).
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