California Codes, Civil Code - CIV, Division 3 — Obligations, Part 2 — Contracts, Title 1 — Nature of a Contract, Chapter 3 — Consent, Section 1570

Menace consists in a threat:

1. Of such duress as is specified in Subdivisions 1 and 3 of the last section;

2. Of unlawful and violent injury to the person or property of any such person as is specified in the last section; or,

3. Of injury to the character of any such person.

Notes

Defines menace as a threat of specified duress, unlawful and violent injury to the person or property of the persons covered by the duress rule, or injury to the character of any such person. The definition is limited to those three categories of threatened harm.

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