{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:1361","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"Threat","number":"1361","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1361/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK V - OBLIGATIONS","title":"TITLE I - CONTRACTS IN GENERAL","chapter":"Chapter 3. - Validity","section":"Section 2. - Consent","paragraph":null},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"A party may avoid the contract when it has been led to conclude the contract by the other party’s unjustified threat which, having regard to the circumstances, is so imminent and serious as to leave the first party no reasonable alternative. In particular, a threat is unjustified if the act or omission with which a party has been threatened is wrongful in itself, or it is wrongful to use it as a means to obtain the conclusion of the contract.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1361/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":380,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/380/?article=1361&paragraph=lead#article-1361-lead"}]}],"caution":"This is the 2015 English-language edition attributed in its front matter to the Ministry of Justice. Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation, later changes, or whether the text is currently in force. Nine passages are incomplete in the available scan and are identified where they occur."}