Let’s hope you’re never denied food and sleep and forced to sign a confession, but if you are, that's called being under duress. Threats and harsh treatment meant to make you do something you don’t want to do is duress.
Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.
Noun
compulsory force or threat; "confessed under duress"
n.
Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of
liberty.
n.
The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is
influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by
actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or
to commit an offense.
v. t.
To subject to duress.
Duress
The agreements . . . made with the landlords during the time of slavery, are only the effect of duress and force.2.
Duress
Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.
To subject to duress.
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