Per minas

Per minas, in English Common Law, is to engage in behaviour "by means of menaces or threats".^[1]

Per minas has been used as a defence of duress to certain crimes, as affecting the element of mens rea.^[3]^[4] William Blackstone, the often-cited judge and legal scholar, addressed the use of "duress per minas" under the category of self-defense as a means of securing the "right of personal security", that is, the right of self-defence.^[5]

The classic case involves a person who is blackmailed into robbing a bank.

In contract law, Blackstone used per minas to describe the defence of duress, as affecting the element of contract intent, mutual assent, or meeting of the minds.^[6]^[7]

References[]

^ Clickdocs web site
^ List of Latin legal phrases.
^ Duress per minas as a defense (sic.) to crime, from Law and Philosophy, 185-195 (August 1982).
^ JSTO site, from A Consideration of What Amounts to Duress Per Minas at Law, in the American Law Register, Vol. 23, No. 4, (April 1875), pp. 201-207.
^ [1] Archived 2019-02-24 at the Wayback Machine, citing Blackstone, (I)(2) (1765).
^ Law-dictionary-com, citing I Blackstone's Commentaries 131.
^ Online Law dictionary^{[permanent dead link]}, citing Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856).

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[1] Clickdocs web site

[2] List of Latin legal phrases.

[3] Duress per minas as a defense (sic.) to crime, from Law and Philosophy, 185-195 (August 1982).

[4] JSTO site, from A Consideration of What Amounts to Duress Per Minas at Law, in the American Law Register, Vol. 23, No. 4, (April 1875), pp. 201-207.

[5] [1] Archived 2019-02-24 at the Wayback Machine, citing Blackstone, (I)(2) (1765).

[6] Law-dictionary-com, citing I Blackstone's Commentaries 131.

[7] Online Law dictionary^{[permanent dead link]}, citing Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856).

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