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DIVISION 3. OBLIGATIONS 1427-3273.91›PART 2. CONTRACTS 1549-1701›TITLE 1. NATURE OF A CONTRACT 1549-1615›CHAPTER 3. Consent 1565-1590

§ 1570

California Civil Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

Menace consists in a threat:

  1. Of such duress as is specified in Subdivisions 1 and 3 of the last section;

  2. Of unlawful and violent injury to the person or property of any such person as is specified in the last section; or,

  3. Of injury to the character of any such person.

(Enacted 1872.)

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