Assertion: distress | /r/CapableOf | commit offence
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text: In context|legal|lang=en terms the difference between distress and duress is that distress is (legal) to retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain while duress is (legal) the state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restraint of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offence.