Unjust enrichment /

This new edition of Unjust Enrichment by the editor of the Clarendon Law Series, is a fully updated, clear and concise account of the law of unjust enrichment. It attempts to move away from the use of obscure terminology inherited from the past.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Birks, Peter, 1941-2004
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Clarendon law series.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Introduction
  • 1. A core case
  • 2. Three maps.
  • Part II: Enrichment at the expense of the claimant
  • 3. Enrichment
  • 4. At the expense of the claimant.
  • Part III: Unjust
  • 5. Changing direction
  • 6. Absence of basis.
  • Part IV: The right to restitution
  • 7. Rights in personam
  • 8. Rights in rem.
  • Part V: Defences
  • 9. Disenrichment and disimpoverishment
  • 10. Unjust-related defences.
  • Part VI: Competing terminology
  • 11. Competing generics
  • 12. Persistent fragments.