duressor

English

Etymology

From duress +‎ -or.

Noun

duressor (plural duressors)

1. (law) Someone who subjects another to duress.
   • 1596, Francis Bacon, Maxims of the Law:

     if you will deliver me that piece of plate , now the duress is discharged ; and yet if it had been moved from the duressor , who had said at the first you shall take this peece of Plate , and make me a bond […]

References

• “duressor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.