From: utzoo!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!nrh
Newsgroups: net.politics
Title: Re: payment under duress (cca.4549 follo - (nf)
Article-I.D.: inmet.58
Posted: Wed Apr  6 03:28:30 1983
Received: Wed Apr  6 07:37:57 1983

#R:allegra:-114600:inmet:7800002:000:759
inmet!nrh    Apr  4 15:07:00 1983

Oh my gosh!  Let's look it up in a dictionary someone might use
for a dialogue on the net ("conversational english"), rather than
try to get the "law dictionary" meaning:

Checking into Webster's New World Dictionary, Second College Edition.....

	du-ress .... 1. imprisonment  2 the use of force or threats;
	compulsion [a confession signed under duress]

Amazing!  No mention whatever of the legality of the force imposed.

Perhaps to quash further idiot nit-picking of this sort, (and by this
I include both the article that sparked this, quoting a law dictionary
and this article up to and including the line beginning "Amazing!")
we should all agree on a SINGLE dictionary  How about
the American Heritage?  I've been itching for a excuse to buy one....