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inducement
contracts, evidence. The moving cause of an action.
2. In contracts, the benefit.which the obligor is to receive is the inducement to making them. Vide Cause; Consideration.
3. When a person is charged with a crime, he is sometimes induced to make confessions by the flattery of hope, or the torture of fear. When such confessions are made in consequence of promises or threats by a person in authority, they cannot be received in evidence. In England a distinction has been made between temporal and spiritual inducements; confessions made under the former are not receivable in evidence, while the latter may be admitted. Joy on Conf. ss. 1 and 4.
Source : Bouvier 1856
Language : English