No consent shall be valid which has been extorted by threat.
Civil Code
2015 English source edition · Current applicability not established.
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Article 530
Threat · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
Threat shall be deemed to have occurred where consent is given only with a view to protecting the person who has given it, or one of his ascendants or one of his descendants, from a menace of a grave and imminent evil.
Threat shall not be deemed to have occurred where consent is prompted by reverential fear towards an ascendant or another person.