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  2. Legal threat - Wikipedia

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    A legal threat is a statement by a party that it intends to take legal action on another party, generally accompanied by a demand that the other party take an action demanded by the first party or refrain from taking or continuing actions objected to by the demanding party.

  3. Threat - Wikipedia

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    Threats can be subtle or overt. Actor Justus D. Barnes in The Great Train Robbery. A threat is a communication of intent to inflict harm or loss on another person. [1] [2] Intimidation is a tactic used between conflicting parties to make the other timid or psychologically insecure for coercion or control. The act of intimidation for coercion is ...

  4. Terroristic threat - Wikipedia

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    A terroristic threat is a threat to commit a crime of violence or a threat to cause bodily injury to another person and terrorization as the result of the proscribed conduct. [1] Several U.S. states have enacted statutes which impose criminal liability for "terroristic threatening" or "making a terroristic threat." [2]

  5. Death threat - Wikipedia

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    A death threat is a threat, often made anonymously, by one person or a group of people to kill another person or group of people. These threats are often designed to intimidate victims in order to manipulate their behaviour, in which case a death threat could be a form of coercion. For example, a death threat could be used to dissuade a public ...

  6. Duress in American law - Wikipedia

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    Duress is a threat of harm made to compel someone to do something against their will or judgment; especially a wrongful threat made by one person to compel a manifestation of seeming assent by another person to a transaction without real volition. - Black's Law Dictionary (8th ed. 2004) Duress in contract law falls into two broad categories: [6]

  7. Here's how to spot a legal threat scam - AOL

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  8. True threat - Wikipedia

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    The true threat doctrine was established in the 1969 Supreme Court case Watts v. United States. [3] In that case, an eighteen-year-old male was convicted in a Washington, D.C. District Court for violating a statute prohibiting persons from knowingly and willfully making threats to harm or kill the President of the United States. [3]

  9. Legal Briefing: Shock Jock's Blog Post Was Violent Threat ...

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    A daily look at legal news and the business of law: Third Time's a Charm: Radio Shock Jock Convicted of Threatening Judges Hal Turner, a right-wing radio shock jock who has advocated violence ...