From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!allegra!honey
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.taxes
Title: payment under duress (cca.4549 followup)
Article-I.D.: allegra.1146
Posted: Sun Apr  3 19:49:19 1983
Received: Mon Apr  4 02:29:43 1983


From: allegra!honey
To: cca!dee net.politics net.taxes
Date: Sun Apr  3 19:50:21 1983 EST

Payment of taxes is under duress, eh?  Hmmm, let's just open the old
Black's Legal Dictionary (4th Deluxe Edition) and look it up ... chosen
... dominion ...  edicts ... dummy ... duress -- there we go!

	DURESS, n.  Unlawful constraint exercised upon a man whereby he
	is forced to do some act that he otherwise would not have done
	...  [here going on at boring length to describe types of
	force, citing obscure cases by the armload].  Duress consists
	in [sic] any illegal imprisonment, or legal imprisonment used
	for an illegal purpose, or threats of bodily or other harm, or
	other means amounting to or tending to coerce the will of
	another, and actually inducing ... [blah blah, followed by
	etc.] ... and it is never "duress" to threaten to do that which
	a party has a legal right to do ... [ditto]  such as
	instituting or threatening to institute civil actions.

Let me know what you decide.
	Peter Honeyman