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.
In the absence of fraud, the drunken person must restore as a condition precedent to disaffirmance whatever he has received tinder the contract.1 This rule, however, must undoubtedly be qualified by providing that the drunken person need not account for whatever he may have lost or wasted during the same period of intoxication in which he made the contract. If fraud co-exists with intoxication, the return of the consideration is not a condition precedent, at least in equity, but provision will be made in the decree for a fair compensation.2 In any event, on disaffirmance the consideration may be recovered in assumpsit from the drunken person.3
 
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