Restitution and unjust enrichment is the field of law relating to gains-based recovery. In contrast with damages (the law of compensation), restitution...
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Goff & Jones (redirect from Goff and Jones on the Law of Unjust Enrichment)
Goff and Jones on the Law of Unjust Enrichment (formerly Goff and Jones on the Law of Restitution, usually simply abbreviated to Goff & Jones) is the leading...
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law of unjust enrichment is part of the English law of obligations, along with the law of contract, tort, and trusts. The law of unjust enrichment deals...
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Quasi-contract (section Quasi-contract and contract)
Implied-in-fact contract Negotiorum gestio Promissory estoppel Restitution and unjust enrichment Officious intermeddler See for example Eighth Circuit Court...
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into (at least) three broad categories: Restitution for unjust enrichment Restitution for wrongs Restitution to vindicate property rights Outside of these...
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Robert Goff, Baron Goff of Chieveley (category Military personnel from Perth and Kinross)
co-author of Goff & Jones, the leading English law textbook on restitution and unjust enrichment, first published in 1966. He practised as a commercial barrister...
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Restatements of the Law (redirect from Restatement of Torts, Third, Liability for Physical and Emotional Harm)
Property (Mortgages, Servitudes, Wills and Other Donative Transfers), Restitution and Unjust Enrichment, Suretyship and Guaranty, Torts (Products Liability...
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order Equitable remedy Gag order Injunction Lawsuit rulings Restitution and unjust enrichment Restraining order Search warrant Stay of execution Temporary...
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experts on the English law of restitution of unjust enrichment and the law of trusts. He is the author of two leading textbooks and one practitioner's book...
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English Law of Unjust Enrichment is a legal treatise by Andrew Burrows, written in collaboration with an advisory group of academics, judges and practitioners...
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Lipkin Gorman v Karpnale Ltd (category English unjust enrichment case law)
principle of unjust enrichment, and that an award of restitution is subject to a defence of change of position. This secured unjust enrichment as the third pillar...
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Constructive trust (category Wills and trusts)
possess due to unjust enrichment or interference, or due to a breach of fiduciary duty, which is intercausative with unjust enrichment and/or property interference...
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and the numerous cases led to a rapid evolution in terms of the development and understanding of the English law of restitution and unjust enrichment...
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Change of position (category Unjust enrichment)
inequitable to compel him or her to make restitution. The defence was recognised as part of the English law of unjust enrichment by Lord Goff in Lipkin Gorman v...
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and has shaped the direction of the law of unjust enrichment, mistake, and other related areas of restitution. Virgo has described his teaching and pastoral...
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sues for net profits, this is instead ordinarily known as restitution for unjust enrichment. Indeed, the U.S. Supreme Court has noted in Liu v. SEC (2020)...
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ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority (church leadership) for the government of a Christian organization or church and its members...
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Moses v Macferlan (category English unjust enrichment case law)
taken of the plaintiff's situation". English unjust enrichment law Landmark cases in the Law of Restitution Roxborough v Rothmans of Pall Mall Australia...
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Peter Birks (category People educated at Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School)
regarded as too eclectic and inconsistent. He also wrote An Introduction to the Law of Restitution and Unjust Enrichment, and wrote some 142 contributions...
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Legal fiction (section Doe and Roe)
This is the origin of the names John Doe and Richard Roe for anonymous parties. The fiction of Doe, Roe, and the leases was not challenged by the parties...
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Customary law (section Nature, definition and sources)
been done and accepted by law". Customary law (also, consuetudinary or unofficial law) exists where: a certain legal practice is observed and the relevant...
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Sumpter v Hedges (category English unjust enrichment case law)
performance of a contract and restitution for unjust enrichment. Mr Sumpter was a builder. He had a contract to build two houses and stables for Mr Hedges...
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Foskett v McKeown (category English unjust enrichment case law)
our law of property, not of the law of unjust enrichment. There is no "unjust factor" to justify restitution (unless "want of title" be one, which makes...
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United States contract law (section Unjust Enrichment)
quasi-contract and contract implied in law are synonymous. There are two types of quasi-contract. One is an action in restitution. The other is unjust enrichment. Note...
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Litigation strategy (section Theme and theory)
to a lawsuit intends to integrate their actions with anticipated events and reactions to achieve the overarching goal of the litigation. The strategic...
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Ward Farnsworth (section Education and clerkships)
interpretation, and legal applications of cognitive psychology. He is author of Restitution: Civil Liability for Unjust Enrichment (Chicago 2014), and The Legal...
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Truck wages (category Wages and salaries)
instead in the form of payment in kind (i.e. commodities, including goods and/or services); credit with retailers; or a money substitute, such as scrip...
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Woolwich Building Society v IRC (category English unjust enrichment case law)
Revenue Commissioners [1993] AC 70 is an English unjust enrichment law case, concerning to what extent enrichment of the defendant must be at the expense of...
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in the law of estoppel, misleading conduct, misrepresentation, unjust enrichment, and power of acceptance. Treitel defines an offer as "an expression...
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"quasi-contract" has been replaced by the more modern terminology of unjust enrichment in most common law jurisdictions. Moses v Macferlan (1760) 2 Bur 1005;...
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