Section 409: Procuring execution of deeds, etc., by threats

Any person who, with intent to defraud, and by means of any unlawful violence to, or
restraint of, the person of another, or by means of any threat of violence or restraint to
be used to the person of another, or by means of accusing or threatening to accuse
any person of committing any felony or misdemeanor, or by offering or making any
solicitation or threat to any person as an inducement to commit or permit the
commission of any offence, compels or induces any person‐
(a) to execute, make, accept, endorse, alter, or destroy, the whole or any part of any
valuable security; or
(b) to write, impress, or affix, any name or seal upon or to any paper or parchment, in
order that it may be afterwards made or converted into or used or dealt with as a
valuable security,
is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.
Chapter 37. Burglary: Housebreaking: and like offences