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Compulsory payment

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

One not made voluntarily, but exacted by duress, threats, the enforcement of legal process, or unconscionably taking advantage of another.

Shaw v. Woodcock, 7 Bam. & C. 73; Beckwith v. Frisbie, 32 Vt. 565: State v. Nelson, 41 Minn. 25, 42 N. W. 548 4 In In A. 300; Lonergan v. Bufoni, 148 U. S. 581 , 13 Sup. Ct. 684, 37 In Ed. 569,