Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" ... rule that money paid under a mistake of law cannot be recovered back, namely, where the money is so paid to an officer of the court. "
Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial ... - Page 129
by Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1862
Full view - About this book

A Popular and Practical Introduction to Law Studies: And to Every Department ...

Samuel Warren - Law - 1845 - 1174 pages
...accounts of agents and others, and many similar cases which might be mentioned. Though Courts of Law hold, that money, paid under a mistake of law, cannot be recovered back ; t two recent and very important decisions of the Court of Exchequer and Common Pleas, have afforded...
Full view - About this book

Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan, Volume 107

Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 796 pages
...view, empowered the board of auditors to inquire into the matter, and adjust it. It is well settled that money paid under a mistake of law cannot be recovered back, and, unless an exception is made in favor of the State, the case comes within the rule on the merits....
Full view - About this book

Reports of Practice Cases, Determined in the Courts of the State ..., Volume 12

Civil procedure - 1872 - 620 pages
...principles; and generally without manifesting a disposition to extend, or, even, very freely apply, the rule that money paid under a mistake of law cannot be reclaimed. Its application should be confined to cases falling strictly within it. The penalty imposed...
Full view - About this book

A Treatise Upon Some of the General Principles of the Law: Whether ..., Volume 5

William Wait - Actions and defenses - 1878 - 1026 pages
...attorney was entitled to a docket fee against each of the defendants. State v. Gripe, 5 Blackf. 6. The rule, that money paid under a mistake of law cannot be recovered back, is not applicable as between attorney and client or attorney and the opposite party, where money is...
Full view - About this book

The Law Quarterly Review, Volume 2

Frederick Pollock - Law - 1886 - 562 pages
...Ashwtll) being presumed. The dissent of the donee may, however, divest the gift. It is well-settled law that money paid under a mistake of law cannot be recovered back. There is, however, an exception to this rule, and that is when the money has been paid to an officer...
Full view - About this book

Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the ..., Volume 15

District of Columbia. Supreme Court (1863-1936), Franklin Hubbell Mackey - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 636 pages
...claimed that this was money paid under a mistake of law, and the general rule has been insisted upon that money paid under a mistake of law cannot be recovered back. According to the view we have taken there was no mistake of law, as the District had a right to do...
Full view - About this book

The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 169

Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 1406 pages
...denied the right to recover back the money paid on the contract, and based their opinion on the general rule that money paid under a mistake of law cannot be recovered back. But reading that case in connection with Sparks v. Jasper County, 213 Mo. 237, 112 SW 265, it will...
Full view - About this book

Journal of the Institute of Bankers, Volume 8

Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - Banks and banking - 1887 - 752 pages
...recovery of the payments made in reduction of overdraft, the bank invoked the well-known principle that money paid under a mistake of law cannot be recovered back, but the Court of Appeal held that this principle only applies where the person who made the payment...
Full view - About this book

The Principles of Equity: A Treatise on the System of Justice Administered ...

George Tucker Bispham - Equity - 1887 - 760 pages
...; WiMartin p. NYS & CRR Co., 36 Ien's Appeal, Id. 121. It appears to be settled by the authorities that money paid under a mistake of law cannot be recovered back either in equity or at law.1 The court will not interfere where the parties cannot be restored to their...
Full view - About this book

A Selection of Cases on the Law of Quasi-contracts, Volumes 1-2

William Albert Keener - Quasi contracts - 1888 - 1234 pages
...payment of dividends. Ought it then to be made out of these moneys? The trustee relies on the ordinary rule, that money paid under a mistake of law cannot be recovered in an action between litigant parties. That no doubt is so. But the present case stands in quite a...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF