payment under mistake of fact

payment under mistake of fact
A payment made by one person to another on the mistaken supposition of the existence of a specific fact which would entitle the other to the money, where the money would not have been paid if it had been known to the payer that the fact was otherwise. 40 Am J1st Paym § 187.

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