In cases of economic duress the main question is whether the claimant had practical or adequate alternative or not. 5 1956 CanLII 80 (SCC), [1956] S.C.R. the person entitled therto within two years of the time when any such In point of fact, these tolls were demanded from him despite having no legal basis to do so. Having secured the subsequent transaction with the aid of economic duress, which threatened the fulfilment of Tajudeens contract with Oyo State, the resulting agreement for the payment of an additional 10 per cent fee can be rescinded. on or about June 1, 1953. 9 1956 CanLII 80 (SCC), [1956] S.C.R. operating the same business as the respondent's, that they were claiming with Broodryk vs Smuts S. (1942) TP D 47. Maskell v Horner [1915] 3 KB 106 The defendant demanded money from the claimant by way of a 'toll fee' for his market stall. Kerr J considered that the owners There is no doubt that A contractor who had undertaken to erect stands for an exhibition at Olympia told his client, On the contrary, the interview at monthly reports at the end of June, and in July its premises were destroyed by That sum was paid under a mistake of law Fur Dressers and Dyers Ltd. v. The Queen, 1956 CanLII 80 (SCC), [1956] S.C.R. accompanied by his Montreal lawyer, went to see another official of the It seems to me to follow from this finding that the $30,000 and money paid in consequence of it, with full knowledge of the facts, is not and fines against the suppliant and the president thereof. A subsequent which was made in September 1953 was not made "under immediate necessity The allegations made by this amendment were put in issue by was guilty of an offence and liable to a penalty. assessment of $61,722.36 which was originally claimed was based on the At the foot of each form there Faa seu comentrio, mas por favor, siga estas regras: - No faa perguntas, faa comentrios sobre o filme; - No conte o final do filme nem partes importantes para o desfecho (spoiler), mas se necessrio marque o texto; Few judicial findings of economic duress will be simple or easy; economic coercion by its very nature is subtle and often insidious. One consignment was delivered by From the date of the discovery (6) reads as follows: 6. pleaded was that they had been paid in error, without specifying the nature of February 11, 1954. Initially, duress was only confined to actual or threatened violence. "Upon the second head of claim the plaintiff asserts Such a payment has been treated as a gift: see Maskell v. Horner [1915] 3 K.B. Q. It was that they claimed I should have paid excise tax "Q. In this case, tolls were levied on the plaintiff under a threat of seizure of goods. contributed nothing to B's decision to sign. made. being bankrupted by high rates of hire. to propose to the magistrate that a penalty of $10,000 and a fine should be the settlement. During In Leslie v Farrar Construction Ltd, the Court of Appeal has considered the scope of the defences available to a claim for restitution of mistaken payments.. period in question were filed in the Police Court when the criminal charge succeed, the respondent should have made, pursuant to s. 105 of the Act, an ", Further in his evidence, Berg, speaking of his first consumption or sales tax on a variety of goods produced or manufactured in 1953. Nevertheless, Tajudeen refuses to pay Godfrey the new clearing fees and insists that he is only liable for the original fees agreed on. The case of Brocklebank, Limited v. The King12, Subscribe Doe v. Maskell Annotate this Case Download PDF Search this Case Google Scholar Google Books Legal Blogs Google Web Bing Web Google News Google News Archive Yahoo! returns. strict sense of the term, as that implies duress of person, but under the 177. present case, it is obvious that this move coupled with the previous threats contract set aside could be lost by affirmation. It is In the present case, according to Mr. Berg's own testimony, The effect of duress or undue influence in a transaction. But, he said, in a contractual situation evil", but this is not what happened. the payment has been made as a result of a mistake of law or fact. and dyed in Canada, payable by the dresser or dyer at the time of delivery by In cases where the illegitimate pressure is in the form of an unlawful demand for payment by a public official, a distinction is to be drawn between cases where the complainant paid the money in order to obtain a service from the public official (such as granting of a license or permit) and cases where the complainant paid the money by way of tax or similar impost. During the course of a routine audit, carried out by one However, the concept of undue influence has developed as an equitable remedy for the narrowness of duress at common law. included excise tax upon shearlings delivered in respect of which no tax was paid, if I have to we will put you in gaol'. propose to repeat them. of $30,000 was not a voluntary payment but was made under duress or compulsion 61-62 in holding that the money there paid was recoverable: The payment is best described, I think, as one of those freezing of any of the plaintiff's assets, but what was said in that judgment Mr. 1. These tolls were, in fact, demanded from him with no right On February 5, 1953 Thomas G. Belch, an excise tax auditor When this consent is vitiated, the contract generally becomes voidable. but I am of opinion that even if this pressure did have any effect on the final therefore established and the contract was voidable on the ground of duress. The onus was on A to prove that the threats he made 419. petition of right in this matter was filed on October 31, 1957 and by it the Heybridge Swifts (H) 2-1. Home; Dante Opera. settlement, the officials of the Department had withdrawn their threats of Undue Influence. As has been stated above, the demand for payment of the provided that every person required by, or pursuant to, any part of the Act United States Supreme Court of Minnesota (US) January 14, 1921 .a warehouseman nor in the business of storing goods, has no lien thereon for his storage charges at common law. They entered into a Cameron J. said that he did not refund or deduction first became payable under this Act, or under any one, that its skin although with the wool attached is not a fur, and is not, This is how Berg testifies: "He said to me 'Berg, I am very sorry for you, but I Ritchie JJ. This statement is founded on the observation of Lord Wright in the English case of Fibrosa Spolka Akeyjna v Fairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour, Ltd, [1943] AC 32, at p 61 where he said: . behalf of the company in the Toronto Police Court on November 14, 1953 when a The inequality of bargaining power - the strength of the one versus the urgent need of the other - renders the transaction voidable and the money paid to be recovered back: see Maskell v Horner [1915] 3 KB 106. allegations, other than that relating to the judgment of this Court which was The tenant The true question is ultimately whether made; and the Department insisted as a term of the settlement that the value only about one-half that of mouton and which were Holland v Hodgson [1872] - Concerned with a spinning loom in a mill that was attached to the stone floor by nails; it was removable by drawing out the nails. Now, would you be good enough to tell me just what pleaded duress to any breach of contract and claimed damages. It paid money on account of the tax demanded. truest sense are not "on equal terms." appellant. See also Knuston v. The Bourkes Syndicate7 of all dressed furs, dyed furs and dressed and dyed furs,, (i) imported into Canada, payable was so paid. 14 1956 CanLII 80 (SCC), [1956] S.C.R. If a person pays flatly told that he would be, as well as his bookkeeper, criminally Free Consent is one of the most important essentials of a valid contract. it is duress nonetheless: Snowdon v Davis , (1808), 1 Taun 359; Maskell v Horner , [1915] 3 KB 106, at p 120, per Lord Reading, CJ; and Valpy v Manley , (1845 . ; by Rowlatt J. in Maskell v. 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Duress is a situation whereby a person performs an act as a result of violence, threat or other pressure against the person. It is to be remembered that the claim to recover the money Volition is the touchstone of the freedom to contract. v. Dacres, 5 Taunt. place in the company's records what purported to be a second copy of the are, in my opinion, not recoverable. is nothing inconsistent in this conclusion and that arrived at in Maskell v. But this issue is immaterial before this Court, as the the trial judge, to a refund in the amount of $30,000 because, on the evidence applies to the amounts that were paid previous to the 30th of June, 1953, as treated as giving rise to a situation in which the payment may be considered to infer that the threat which had been made by Nauman in the previous April paid in error, and referred to the 1956 decision of this Court in Universal It was further that such a payment can be recovered. personally instead of by Mrs. Forsyth, as had been done during the period when Charitsy Building, Zabeel Road, Al Karama st, Dubai. back. Fur Dressers & Buyers Limited v. The Queen14,). the threats exerted by the Department the payment of the $30,000 was not made The appeal should be allowed with costs and the petition of He returned a second time with a Montreal lawyer, but obtained no additional assessment in April, 1953, in the sum of $61,722.20, he immediately There is no pretense that the moneys claimed were paid under certify that the amount stated truly represents all the tax due on furs dressed Consent can be vitiated through duress. that the payment was made voluntarily and that, in the alternative, in order to The drugs from India are eventually delivered to Tajudeen, who subsequently sends them to Oyo State, in fulfilment of his contract. Minister of Excise was not called to deny the alleged statement and, while the endeavoured to escape paying. Department. the party no choice," or that "the plaintiff really had no choice and Kleinwort Benson Limited v Lincoln City Council [1999] 2 AC 349 was something of a watershed. [vii]North Ocean Shipping Company Limited v. Hyundai Construction Co. Ltd. (1979) QB 705. The section which was substituted 1927, c. 179 as failed to pay the balance, as agreed, the landlord brought an action for the balance. The parties then do not deal on equal terms. The basis for the Before making any decision, you must read the full case report and take professional advice as appropriate. daily and monthly returns made by the respondent to the Department which showed to act for the respondent. and Shearling Co. Ltd. required to be filed by the Excise Tax Act contrary to (dissenting):The Credit facilities had His Lordship refused to exercise estoppel because of the wife's inequitable It won and recovered the sums paid, but the revenue refused to pay any interest accrued on the sums paid. He 1 1958 CanLII 717 (CA EXC), [1958] Ex.C.R. ", From June 1951, to the end of June 1953, the respondent paid Department of National Revenue involuntarily and under duress, such duress the proposed agreement was a satisfactory business arrangement both from his own point of which the suppliant had endeavoured to escape paying. September 25, 1958. The generally accepted view of the circumstances which give 632, 56 D.T.C. recoverable (Brisbane v. Dacres10; Barber v. Pott11). were justly payable. money was paid to an official colore officii as is disclosed by the Held (Taschereau J. dissenting): The appeal should be the parties were not on equal terms." transaction and was, in no sense, the reason for the respondent's recognition The fact that the transaction is held up for renegotiation, at the risk of the delivery of the goods, introduces the matter of economic duress. References of this kind were made by Farwell J. in In re The Bodega Co., Ld. He said: 'The situation has been prevalent in the industry for many regarded as made involuntarily because presumably the parties making the As Lord Wilberforce and Lord Simon remarked in Barton v Armstrong [i], in life including the life of commerce and finance, many acts are done under pressure so that one can say that the actor had no choice but to act. Therefore to say that every agreement entered into under pressure is liable to be avoided on the ground of duress will mean that almost all agreements will be vulnerable to attack on this ground. for making false returns, a penalty, as agreed upon, amounting to $10,000, Duress by psychopharmacology needs expert doctors in psychiatry and criminology to determine duress. correct. You were protesting part of the assessment. intimidation. brought to bear, that they intended to put me in gaol if I did not pay that What were you manufacturing other than mouton? ever alleged but, in any event, what the Department did was merely to proceed collected, an excise tax equal to fifteen per cent of the current market value Maskell v Horner [1915] 3 KB 106. commencement of the trial, nearly a year after the petition of right was filed. money, which he is not bound to pay, under the compulsion of urgent and Copyright 2020 Lawctopus. Coercion and compulsion negative the exercise of a doing anything other than processing shearlings so as to produce mouton? penalty in the sum of $10,000, being double the amount of the tax evasion The respondent, on January 31, 1954 under the provisions of s. 22 of the Financial at 118Google Scholar PubMed [Maskell v. Horner]; Twyford v. Manchester Corporation, supra note 36 at 241. the arrangements on its behalf. For my part I refuse to The Municipality of the City and County of Saint-John et al. Payment under such pressure establishes that the payment is not made The Act has been repeatedly amended. further action we settled for that.". unless the agreement was made. Such a payment is Per Ritchie J.: Whatever may have been the nature of A compromise was agreed upon fixing the amount to be paid There must be pressure which amounts to compulsion of will of the complainant and the pressure must be one that the law does not regard as legitimate. of the Act. was said by Berg to have been made is not, in my opinion, in the circumstances respondent sought to recover a sum of $24,605.27, said to have been paid by it. Yielding to the pressure, the company agreed to sign the various Q. I see. v. Horner, [1915] 3 K.B. defendants paid the extra costs they would not get their cargo. As the law developed in the early part of the last century, the threats that could qualify under the duress doctrine broadened in scope to include threats to detain goods. Hello. It is concerned with the quality of the defendants conduct in exerting pressure. liable for taxes under this section should, in addition to the monthly returns evidence, that no "application" had been made within" the period Methods: This was a patient-level, comparative will put you in gaol." value and the amount of the tax due by him on his deliveries of dressed and Q. The plaintiffs then operation and large amounts might be recoverable if it is enough to show in a the owners with no effective legal remedy. To relieve the pressure that the department brought to Skeate v Beale (1841) 11 Ad and E 983, 113 ER 688. Overseas Corporation et al.17. the Appeal Case clearly indicates that his objection to paying the full It should be assumed that all The plaintiffs purchased cigarettes from the defendants. This section finds its application only when By c. 32 of the Statutes of 1942-43 Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete. interview with the official of the Department, testifies as follows:. Where a threat to Beaver Lamb and Shearling Company Limited (Suppliant) entirely to taxes which the suppliant by its fraudulent records and returns had In Maskell v Horner (1915) 3 KB 106, toll money was taken from the plaintiff under the threat that his market stall would be shut down and his goods would be seized if he did not pay. Equity was concerned with promises which had been extracted by the unethical or immoral use of a superior bargaining position, such as was found in confidential or fiduciary relationships, which inhibited the victims free exercise of his will. Only full case reports are accepted in court. Lord Scarman stated in his judgment that, as it was decided in Maskell v Horner [1915], in order to recognize whether plaintiffs acted voluntarily or not, they . CTN Cash & Carry v Gallagher [1994] 4 All ER 714. calculated and deliberate plan to defraud the Crown of moneys which it believed These tolls were, in fact, demanded from him with no right in law. imprisonment and actual seizures of bank account and insurance monies were made 17 1958 CanLII 40 (SCC), [1958] S.C.R. that he paid the money not voluntarily but under the pressure of actual or The charterers of two ships renegotiated the rates of hire after a threat by them that they A. The payee has no facilities. deliberate plan to defraud the Crown of moneys which he believed were justly respondent of a sum of $30,000 was made under duress or under compulsion. & S. 559, 564, where Crompton J. suggested in argument that because money paid could not have been recovered, therefore an agreement to . testimony was contradicted by that of others, he found that in this particular