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Default Completely OT- Legal tender

Colin Bignell wrote;

Then either the site is wrong, you have misread it or you
misunderstand the concept of legal tender. Legal tender only has
meaning within the very narrow definition of repayment of a debt. In
that case and only in that case, if you offer the exact amount due in
legal tender and the payment is refused, which it can be, you cannot
subsequently be sued for non-payment of the debt. A parking fine is
not a debt, so the concept of legal tender does not apply. It follows
the normal rules of a transaction - that the method of payment has to
be agreed by both parties.


But will the no life muppets at my local parking office know that?


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