Epic Theatres, Inc. Epic Theatres is a privately held motion picture theatre circuit currently operating 67 screens, at 6 sites, in 3 states. USA. epictheatres.com.
~~ Take a quiz on duress in contract law ~~. ~~ Play hangman on duress in contract law ~~. Duress in contract law relates to where a person enters an agreement as a result of threats. Where a party enters a contract because of duress they may have the contract set aside. Originally, the common law only recognised threats of unlawful physical violence, however, in more recent times the courts have recognised economic duress as giving rise to a valid claim.
For example, itâs not legal to force someone to sign a contract at gunpoint; if it was, then without the idea of âsigning under duress,â someone could hypothetically get anyone to sign anything. Instead, the justice system recognizes that some contracts are not valid because of the state of mind that the signee was under when signing.