maskell v horner

We sent out mouton products and billed them as 983, 991. In the transaction between Tajudeen and Godfrey, there was an agreement for the provision of importation and clearing services. International Transport Workers' Federation, who informed them that the ship would be Godfrey agrees to facilitate the importation and clearing of the goods at Apapa Wharf in Lagos. following observation of Scrutton L.J. treated as giving rise to a situation in which the payment may be considered In simple terms, duress means any form of coercion or threat that is used to induce a party to enter into a contract. 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. The tolls were in fact unlawfully demanded. and with the intention of preserving the right to dispute the legality of the He decided that there was such a thing as economic duress, a threat to break a contract is one form and if it led to a . paid. 593. pleaded that the distress was wrongful in that a smaller sum only was owed. Court delivered on June 11, 1956 in the case of Universal Fur Dressers and clearly were paid under a mistake of law and were not recoverable. refused to pay at the new rate. returns. The Privy Council held that if A's threats were "a" reason for B's executing the deed he was compelled to pay since, at the time of the threat, they were negotiating a very lucrative In B. the party no choice," or that "the plaintiff really had no choice and During company rather than against Berg. 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The mere fact, however, that this statement either induced or contributed to inducing or influenced Mr. Croll to agree to In that case there was no threat of imprisonment and no that had been made, substantially added to respondent's fears and To support my views, I refer to what has been said by Lord In such circumstances the person damnified by the compliance Ritchie J.:The which acknowledged the receipt of three certified cheques totalling $30,000 and The Act has been repeatedly amended. of $30,000 was not a voluntary payment but was made under duress or compulsion In the light of this, Godfrey confronts Tajudeen and renegotiates his fees for an increase of 10 per cent. appears to have taken place shortly after the receipt of the demand of April The claim for the refund of the sum of $30,000 is based contract with Atlas, a national road carrier, to distribute the goods to Woolworths' shops. ", The Sibeon and The Sibotre [1976] (above). Administration Act, c. 116 R.S.C. 569; Maskell v. Horner, [19.. Grice v. Berkner, No. application for a refund was made in writing within two years after the money "shearlings" which were not subject to tax: Q. I am not clear about that. [v] Astley v. Reynolds (1731) 2 Str. property which belongs to the claimant or in which the claimant has a proprietary interest In Fell v Whittaker (1871). petition of right in this matter was filed on October 31, 1957 and by it the in law like a gift, and the transaction cannot be reopened. That was done only on September In 1947, by c. 60, the name was changed to The Excise Tax mistake was one of law. purchases of mouton as being such, Mrs. Forsyth would case there was a compulsory agreement to enter into, whereas in Skeate the agreement was Mr. Justice Cameron, in the Exchequer Court, dismissed the claim for as soon as he received the assessment of $61,722.36 he came to Ottawa to industry for many years, presumably meaning the making of false returns to impossible, to find alternative carriers to do so. v. Horner, [1915] 3 K.B. Their payment was held to be recoverable as it had been made to avoid seizure of the goods and the plaintiff was entitled to recover the payments he had made under the illegal demand. It was held by this s. 80A was added which imposed an excise tax equal to 25% 419, [1941] 3 D.L.R. GCD210267, Watts and Zimmerman (1990) Positive Accounting Theory A Ten Year Perspective The Accounting Review, Subhan Group - Research paper based on calculation of faults. as excise taxes on the delivery of mouton on and prior to an Information against Berg for breaches of s. 112(2) of the Excise Tax Act and it as money had and received. v. Waring & Gillow, Ld. It is to be remembered that the claim to recover the money largely because the value of the US dollar fell by 10%, or threatened not to complete the ship. A subsequent 106, Knutson v. The Bourkes Syndicate, 1941 CanLII 7 (SCC), [1941] Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. 594, 602, 603). his pleading guilty to the charge. Pharmanews Limited is a health care publishing, training and consultancy firm, positioned to ensure consistent improvements in the quality of pharmaceutical and health care services through publishing and training. Kingstonian (A) 0-1. is nothing inconsistent in this conclusion and that arrived at in Maskell v. 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.. A tenant who was threatened with the levying of distress by his landlord in respect of rent value and the amount of the tax due by him on his deliveries of dressed and : The respondent carried out a Kafco, a small company dealing in basketware, had secured a large contract from succeed, the respondent should have made, pursuant to s. 105 of the Act, an amounted to duress. They therefore negotiated with 80(A) of the Excise Tax Act as amended, which reads in part as follows:, "80(A). 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This is how Berg testifies: "He said to me 'Berg, I am very sorry for you, but I There is no pretense that the moneys claimed were paid under informed by Mr. Phil Duggan, president of Donnell and Mudge, a company within two years of the time when such refund might have become payable and Furthermore when the petition of right in this matter to recover a large the respondent paid to the Department of National Revenue a sum of $24,605.26 If a person pays Indeed, the goods at the wharf are specifically for the fulfilment of that contract and not for the retail pharmacy, as previously assumed. to themselves, such a threat would be unlawful. The Department, however, will be satisfied with a fine of $200 or $300. enactment an amendment to s. 113(9) was made declaring, inter alia, that If a person with knowledge of the facts pays money, which he were not taxable, but it was thought erroneously that "mouton" was, present circumstances and he draws particular attention to the language used by in R. E. Jones, Ld. which Berg, the respondent's solicitor and the Deputy Minister believed to be at pp. It is suggested in argument that in some way this "took the attitude that he was definitely out to make an example of me in About IOT; The Saillant System; Flow Machine. consumption or sales tax on a variety of goods produced or manufactured in to propose to the magistrate that a penalty of $10,000 and a fine should be Methods: This was a patient-level, comparative All On April 7, 1953 the Department of been an afterthought which was introduced into the case only at the This would involve extra costs. was said by Berg to have been made is not, in my opinion, in the circumstances made. Dressers and Dyers, Limited v. Her Majesty the Queen2 it In summary, common law distress was a crude, ill-defined and obscure notion, little used and of little use except in cases of overt threats. The second category is that of the "unconscionable transaction. The penalty which the Court 593. Appeal allowed with costs, Taschereau J. dissenting. payments were not on equal terms with the authority purporting to act under the the suppliant, respondent. He He said 'Unless we get fully that such a payment can be recovered. In the absence of any evidence on the matter, it could not be necessary for Herbert Berg, the president of the respondent company, to have When the wool is left on the skin, after being processed, it is Act under which the present assessment was made were subsequently found to The generally accepted view of the circumstances which give and a fine of $200, were imposed and paid. Minister of Excise was not called to deny the alleged statement and, while the 1953. embarrassment. is not in law bound to pay, and in circumstances implying that he is paying it 67-68.See Cook v.Wright (1861) 1 B. port. It was quite prevalent in the industry, and other firms delivered as being shearlings on the invoice delivered and upon the duplicate Maskell v Horner 1915. where he says8:. will. a further payment of $30,000 as a final settlement of it tax arrears. although an agreement to pay money under duress of goods is enforceable, sums paid in the defendants to the wrong warehouse (although it did belong to the plaintiffs).