lawful act

However, threatening to do a lawful act will usually not be illegitimate.

This charge could cover a "lawful act done without due caution, which might produce death."

It is a lawful act of national self defense.

The blackmailer has to justify, not doing the lawful act they threaten, but against a person highly vulnerable to them, the demand of money.

But what was that lawful act?

However, contrasting to cases involving business parties, the threat to do a lawful act will probably be duress if used against a vulnerable person.

An obvious case involving "lawful act duress" is blackmail.

The term is used in situations where the law is changed, making a previously committed lawful act now unlawful.

It's a right to counsel issue - the right to counsel to do a perfectly lawful act.

A lawful act such as a killing in self-defence is not an unlawful act for this purpose.

"It is a bizarre 'doing of a lawful act without care and circumspection under circumstances that might result in death.'

There are various exemptions applied to part one providing protection for wildlife, thus no lawful act or offence will be committed, if:

Usually the deviance is criminal, but it can also involve lawful acts considered morally repugnant by a large segment of society.

Involuntary culpable homicide may arise in the context of an unlawful act or a lawful act.

And second, I say Mr. Chiusolo was committing a lawful act as a police officer in the course of making an arrest."

The Times says that the manslaughter verdicts mean that the jury held that the deaths were foreseeable results of a lawful act.

Signatory states to the Convention can only derogate from the rights contained in Article 2 for deaths which result from lawful acts of war.

(Montezuma's killing of Traxalla is less problematic - he comments the act as lawful act against an usurper.

Stopping the march would be like saying "that a man may be convicted for doing a lawful act - there is no authority for such a proposition."

A conspiracy is an agreement between two or more people to commit a crime or unlawful act or a lawful act by unlawful means.

The United States has maintained that the shooting down of the Airbus, while the result of mistaken identification, was a "lawful act of self-defense."

Binding claimed the killing of the terminally ill was not an exception to the law against murder but was a lawful act in the interests of the patient.

Requirements of the offense (crimes and offenses, intent and negligence, lawful acts and blame, attempt, participation, criminality of the media agency relationships)

A lawyer may not perform even a lawful act for a client if the lawyer knows or reasonably should know that the act is the means to an unlawful end.

Steyn LJ held that the threatened withdrawal of future credit was not duress, but he expressly refrained from saying there could never be 'lawful act duress' in a commercial context.