aurochs
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aurochs a large wild Eurasian ox that was the ancestor of domestic cattle. It was probably exterminated in Britain in the Bronze Age, and the last one was killed in Poland in 1627.
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Duress, demanding heroism, and proportionality.
Magazine article from: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law; 5/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Erdemovic case in order to examine whether duress should be a defense to a crime against...favor of permitting the defendant to claim duress weaken as the seriousness of the offense...increases, the Article also argues that the duress defense should usually succeed if it can...
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Economic Duress.(Brief Article)
News Wire article from: Mondaq Business Briefing; 2/25/2002; 700+ words
; Economic duress has always been considered by lawyers as a notoriously...examples of what does and what does not constitute economic duress. Background In substance, economic duress amounts to the application of illegitimate pressure by...
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Duress and culpability. (Articles).
Magazine article from: Criminal Justice Ethics; 6/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...usually given is that the threat of death constituted duress and that duress negates culpability, an essential element of nearly...the conceptualization and the moral assessment of duress, which is among the most controversial and philosophically...
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Throwing the baby out with the bathwater? Four questions on the demise of lawful-act duress in New South Wales.
Magazine article from: University of Queensland Law Journal; 12/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...demand' tactics--is the doctrine of duress. As it developed at common law, though...influence of equity as well, (1) the duress doctrine came to recognize two forms of...shall for convenience label 'regular duress' and 'lawful-act duress'. Regular...
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Navy provides input to DOJ's officer duress system guide.(Technology Update)(United states. Deparment of Justice)(Department of the Navy's Space and Naval Warfare )
Magazine article from: Corrections Today; 2/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...recent technological advances in officer duress systems have helped correctional facilities meet their safety needs. Duress systems permit alarm signals to be distributed...coordinate an effective response to a given duress situation. But as with any new technology...
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DOCTRINE OF ECONOMIC DURESS VALID UNDER OKLAHOMA LAW / RULES STATE SUPREME COURT
Newspaper article from: The Journal Record; 12/17/1986; ; 700+ words
; The doctrine of economic duress may be used under Oklahoma law to invalidate...the first time the theory of economic duress has been addressed under state law...the specific nomenclature "economic duress," the state has acknowledged that...
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Signing under duress
Magazine article from: Supply Management; 4/26/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...tough bargaining and actionable `economic duress'. Alan Ma explains how courts decided...sum demanded and then pleaded economic duress afterwards to claim the money back or...consideration, is voidable because of economic duress. This subject has been examined by the...
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OwnerIQ Announces Unique "Duress Shopper" Data.
Business Wire; 11/11/2009; 700+ words
; ...Reliable Display Ad Data Regarding Consumers Making Duress Purchases BOSTON -- OwnerIQ, the first and...display ad targeting data for consumers making duress, or demand-in, purchases. Duress purchases are those motivated by the immediate...
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Duress systems in correctional facilities.
Magazine article from: Corrections Today; 6/1/2006; 700+ words
; ...by the U.S. Department of Justice. Duress systems can help correctional officers...Fortunately, if his facility uses a duress system, the officer can trigger a transmitter...down" alarm and summon aid. What Is a Duress System? To respond effectively to assaults...
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Economic duress frustrates lessors' equipment recovery
Magazine article from: Equipment Leasing Today; 10/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Jersey court accepts a lessee's economic duress argument. New Jersey courts will not enforce an agreement signed under economic duress, which the state Supreme Court defines...to add Besser as a defendant. Arguing Duress The Woitschecks argued that Cargill...
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Excuse: Duress
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice
EXCUSE: DURESS The defense of duress is typically invoked when someone has been pressured into committing...these cases the perpetrator of a serious crime insisted that the duress of being threatened with death, or of seeing his family threatened...
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Duress
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
DURESS Unlawful pressure exerted upon a person...he or she ordinarily would not perform. Duress also encompasses the same harm, threats...individual's spouse, child, or parent. Duress is distinguishable from undue influence...
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duress
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
duress , in law, actual or threatened violence...compelled. Anyone who makes a contract under duress is entitled to void it and be free of its...in order to release him from the contract duress must be shown to have overcome his mind...
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economic duress
Book article from: A Dictionary of Business and Management
economic duress Historically, in contract law, a claim that a contract was voidable for duress could only be successful if a threat to the person (i.e. physical duress) had induced the contract. Now, however, a contract may be voidable...
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duress(e)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
duress(e) †hardness, harshness XIV; forcible restraint, imprisonment; constraint XV. — OF. duresse :- L. dūritia , f. dūrus hard; see -ESS 2 .
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