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DECISIONS: — I.  The  amount  voluntarily  paid  on  a  protested  Bill  of
Exchange,  by  the  drawer  cannot  be  recovered  on  the  ground  of  an  error  in  the
payment,  in  point  of  law—K.  B  .--•Caldwell  k  Patterson,  2  R.  de  L.,  p.  27.
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398  Of  quasi-contracts. — Art.  104^.
2.  Une  erreur  de  droit  may  give  rise  to  an  action  for  the  reoorery  back  of
money  paid.  In  the  case  submitted,  a  party  who  has  voluntarily  paid  a  tax
imposed  by  a  by-law  of  a  municipal  corporation,  which  by-law  is  declared  by  the
court  to  be  void,  has  a  right  to  recover  back  what  he  has  so  paid. — Q.B. —
Leprohon  is  City  of  Montreal,  2  L.  C.  R.,  p.  180.
3.  A  prothonotary  is  not  entitled  to  demand  any  fee  upon  the  contestation
of  the  certificate  of  a  registrar  filed  pursuant  to  law.  The  prothonotary  having
demanded  and  received  such  fee,  the  party  who  has  paid  the  same  is  entitled  to
recover  it  back  and  the  court  will,  upon  action,  order  the  prothonotary  to  refund
the  amount  so  paid. — Stuabt,  J. — Langlois  vs  Walton^  12  L.  C.  R.,  p.  236.
4.  An  action  eondictio  indebiii  lies  to  recover  back  money  which  has  been
paid,  but  under  protest,  in  satisfaction  of  a  prescribed  debt,  when  illegal  coercion
has  been  employed  to  obtain  the  payment — Q.  B — Corporation  of  Quebec  S
Carony  10  L.  C.  J.,  p.  317.
