duressor

English

Etymology

From duress +‎ -or.

Noun

duressor (plural duressors)

  1. (law) Someone who subjects another to duress.
    • 1596, Francis Bacon, Maxims of the Law:
      if you will deliver me that piece of plate , now the duress is discharged ; and yet if it had been moved from the duressor , who had said at the first you shall take this peece of Plate , and make me a bond […]

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