Coercion means—(1) Threats of serious harm to or physical restraint against any person; (2) Any scheme, plan, or pattern intended to cause a person to believe that failure to perform an act would result in serious harm to or physical restraint against any person; or (3) The abuse or threatened abuse of the legal process.
Coercion means threat of kidnapping, extortion, force or violence to be performed immediately or in the future or the use of parental, custodial, or official authority over a child less than fifteen (15) years of age.
Coercion means a threat, however communicated:
Examples of Coercion in a sentence
Coercion and Reconciliation as Opposing Strategies in Rubens’ Real Presence in the Holy Sacrament.” Nederlandsch Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 55 (2004): 87 – 116.
More Definitions of Coercion
Coercion means the exploitation of authority or the use of bribes, threats of force, or intimidation to gain cooperation or compliance.
Coercion means harming or threatening to harm, directly or indirectly, persons, or their property to influence their involvement in the Bidding, or affect the execution of the Concession Agreement;
Coercion means words or circumstances that cause the complainant reasonably to fear that the actor will inflict bodily harm upon, or hold in confinement, the complainant or another, or force the complainant to submit to sexual penetration or contact, but proof of coercion does not require proof of a specific act or threat).
Coercion means communication or conduct which unduly compels a vulnerable elder to act or refrain from acting against the vulnerable elder’s will and against the vulnerable elder’s best interests.
Coercion means a threat of kidnapping, extortion, force, or violence to be performed immediately or in the future. (Tennessee Code Annotated § 39-13-501(1))
Coercion means—
a. Threats of serious harm to or physical restraint against any person;
b. Any scheme, plan, or pattern intended to cause a person to believe that failure to perform an act would result in serious harm to or physical restraint against any person; or
c. The abuse or threatened abuse of the legal process.
d. Withholding any documents (e.g. passports, visas, IDs, etc.) that prevents or restricts the person to move freely. “Commercial sex act” means any sex act on account of which anything of value is given to or received by any person. “Debt bondage” means the status or condition of a debtor arising from a pledge by the debtor of his or her personal services or of those of a person under his or her control as a security for debt, if the value of those services as reasonably assessed is not applied toward the liquidation of the debt or the length and nature of those services are not respectively limited and defined.