Duress

"If a man, by the terror of present death, be compelled to do a fact against the law, he is totally excused, because no law can oblige a man to abandon his own preservation. And supposing such a law were obligatory, yet a man would reason thus: If I do it not, I die presently; if I do it, I die afterwards; therefore by doing it, there is time of life gained"
Hobbes, Leviathan, Pt. II, ch. 27 (1651)