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.
Money paid with full knowledge of all material facts, under mistake of law, cannot be recovered in the absence of other reasons for allowing such recovery.1 The same principles apply where there is full knowledge of facts but one party subsequently wishes to avoid the transaction.2 Payments of this sort are merely examples, and the most common kind, of voluntary payments, and fall within the rule that voluntary payments cannot be recovered.
8Fegan v. Ry., 9 N. D. 30; 81 1ST. W. 39.
1 Worley v. Moore, 97 Ind. 15.
2 Stotsenburg. v. Fordice, 142 Ind. 490; 41 N. E. 313, 810.
3 See Sec. 84.
1Bilbie v. Lumley, 2 East. 469; Holt v. Thomas, 105 Cal. 273; 38 Pac. 891; Brumagin v. Tillinghast, 18 Cal. 265; 79 Am. Dec. 176; Morgan Park (Village of) v. Knopf, 199 111. 444; 65 N. E. 322; Mc-Whinney v. Logansport, 132 Ind. 9; 31 N. E. 449; Painter v. Polk Co., 81 la. 242; 25 Am. St. Rep. 489; 47 N. W. 65; Cherokee County v. Hubbard, 8 Kan. App. 500; 55 Pac. 557; Louisville, etc., By. v. Hopkins Co., 87 Ky. 605; 9 S. W. 497; Coburn v. Neal, 94 Me. 541; 48 Atl. 178; Bragdon v. Freedom, 84 Me. 431; 24 Atl. 895; Freeman v. Curtis, 51 Me. 140; 81 Am. Dec. 564; Baltimore v. Lefferman, 4 Gill 425; 45 Am. Dec. 145; Taber v. New Bedford, 177 Mass. 197; 58 N. E. 640; Alton v. Bank, 157 Mass. 341; 34 Am. St. Rep. 285; 18 L. R. A. 144; 32 X. E. 228; Forbes v. Ap-pleton. 5 Cush. 115; Lamb v. Rath-burn, 118 Mich. 666; 77 NT. W. 268; Erkens v. Nicolin, 39 Minn. 461; 40 N. W. 567; Needles v. Burk. 81 Mo. 569; 51 Am. Rep. 251; Kane v. Dauernheim, 60 Mo. App. 64; Strafford Savings Bank v. Church, 69 N.
 
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