This section is from the book "The Law Of Contracts", by William Herbert Page. Also available from Amazon: Commercial Contracts: A Practical Guide to Deals, Contracts, Agreements and Promises.
Duress or legal compulsion is not invariably confined to duress of person or property although these are the common cases. Thus payment made by force of a statute afterward held unconstitutional, requiring a certain payment as a condition precedent to the jurisdiction of the Probate Court in administering an estate,1 may be recovered.
 
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