Duress and civil fraud

• Conclusion of a transaction by manipulating the will of a contracting party

• Threat or induced error was decisive (causal) for the conclusion of the contract

• Contract is voidable at the option of the victimized party

legal impossibility and prohibited (immoral) transactions

• Sale of the Atlantic

• ’Service contract’ for the execution of murder / fraud

• Contract is void notwithstanding the will of the parties