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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  COMPULSION. The forcible inducement to au act.
       2. Compulsion may be lawful or unlawful. 1. When a man is compelled by 
  lawful authority to do that which be ought to do, that compulsion does not 
  affect the validity of the act; as for example, when a court of competent 
  jurisdiction compels a party to execute a deed, under the pain of attachment 
  for contempt, the grantor cannot object to it on the ground of compulsion. 


  2. But if the court compelled a party to do an act forbidden by law, or not 
  having jurisdiction over the parties or the subject-matter, the act done by 
  such compulsion would be void. Bowy. Mod. C. L. 305. 
       3. Compulsion is never presumed. Coercion. (q.v.) 
  
  

















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