• 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • Implied-in-fact contract Negotiorum gestio Promissory estoppel Restitution and unjust enrichment Officious intermeddler See for example Eighth Circuit Court...
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  • Property (Mortgages, Servitudes, Wills and Other Donative Transfers), Restitution and Unjust Enrichment, Suretyship and Guaranty, Torts (Products Liability...
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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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    order Equitable remedy Gag order Injunction Lawsuit rulings Restitution and unjust enrichment Restraining order Search warrant Stay of execution Temporary...
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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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    the incorporation of exclusion clauses and damages for breach of contract or restitution for unjust enrichment. A widow, Mrs Joan Dillon, bought a cruise...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • now called obligations arising in tort and contract; and in some common law jurisdictions, unjust enrichment. The origins of the action can be traced...
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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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  • 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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  • Failure of consideration (category Restitution)
    'unjust factor' for the purposes of the law of unjust enrichment. Where there is a "total failure of consideration" the claimant can seek restitution of...
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    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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  • to inherit both, the parent directly and grandparent indirectly, with the parent instantaneously inheriting and then bequeathing. The doctrine of survival...
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  • of property lost, but the initial enrichment value to B. It may not be possible to account for B's total enrichment in the fullness of time with a high...
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  • Law of Restitution (2006) is a book edited by Charles Mitchell and Paul Mitchell, which outlines the key cases in English unjust enrichment law and restitution...
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    Member of the American Law Institute and has been active in the Restatement of Law Third, Restitution and Unjust Enrichment Project. On October 22, 2004, she...
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  • Banque Financière de la Cité v Parc (Battersea) Ltd (category English unjust enrichment case law)
    Financiere de la Cite v Parc (Battersea) Ltd [1998] UKHL 7 is an English unjust enrichment case, concerning the framework for a claim. A company named Parc (Battersea)...
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    Just price (category Catholic Church and finance)
    unjust enrichment, an infraction to the seventh Commandment and a sin for the other. Only a restitution of the undue prince enables the absolution and bring...
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