Enrichment at the Claimant's Expense

Enrichment at the Claimant's Expense
Author: Eli Ball
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2016-12-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1782258418

This book presents an account of attribution in unjust enrichment. Attribution refers to how and when two parties – a claimant and a defendant – are relevantly connected to each other for unjust enrichment purposes. It is reflected in the familiar expression that a defendant be 'enriched at the claimant's expense'. This book presents a structured account of attribution, consisting of two requirements: first, the identification of an enrichment to the defendant and a loss to the claimant; and, secondly, the identification of a connection between that enrichment and that loss. These two requirements must be kept separate from other considerations often subsumed within the expression 'enrichment at the claimant's expense' which in truth have nothing to do with attribution, and which instead qualify unjust enrichment liability for reasons that should be analysed in their own terms. The structure of attribution so presented fits a normative account of unjust enrichment based upon each party's exchange capacities. A defendant is enriched when he receives something that he has not paid for under prevailing market conditions, while a claimant suffers a loss when he loses the opportunity to charge for something under the same conditions. A counterfactual test – asking whether enrichment and loss arise 'but for' each other – provides the best generalisation for testing whether enrichment and loss are connected, thereby satisfying the requirements of attribution in unjust enrichment.

Enrichment at the Claimant's Expense

Enrichment at the Claimant's Expense
Author: Eli Byron Stuart Ball
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Total Pages:
Release: 2016
Genre: Unjust enrichment
ISBN: 9781782258421

Foreword / Justice James Edelman -- Introduction -- The exchange capacity -- Enrichment -- Loss -- Connections -- Generalisations -- Transactions -- Qualification -- Conclusion

Unjust Enrichment

Unjust Enrichment
Author: Peter Birks
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2005-01-13
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0191018856

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. This text is the first book to insist on the switch from restitution to unjust enrichment, from response to event. It organises modern law around five simple questions: Was the defendant enriched? If so, was it at the claimant's expense? If so, was it unjust? The fourth question is then what kind of right the claimant has, and the fifth is whether the defendant has any defences. This second edition was revised and updated by Peter Birks before his death from cancer on 6 July 2004 at the age of 62. It represents the final thinking of the world's leading authority on the subject.

Enrichment at the Claimant's Expense

Enrichment at the Claimant's Expense
Author: Eli Ball
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2016-12-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 178225840X

This book presents an account of attribution in unjust enrichment. Attribution refers to how and when two parties – a claimant and a defendant – are relevantly connected to each other for unjust enrichment purposes. It is reflected in the familiar expression that a defendant be 'enriched at the claimant's expense'. This book presents a structured account of attribution, consisting of two requirements: first, the identification of an enrichment to the defendant and a loss to the claimant; and, secondly, the identification of a connection between that enrichment and that loss. These two requirements must be kept separate from other considerations often subsumed within the expression 'enrichment at the claimant's expense' which in truth have nothing to do with attribution, and which instead qualify unjust enrichment liability for reasons that should be analysed in their own terms. The structure of attribution so presented fits a normative account of unjust enrichment based upon each party's exchange capacities. A defendant is enriched when he receives something that he has not paid for under prevailing market conditions, while a claimant suffers a loss when he loses the opportunity to charge for something under the same conditions. A counterfactual test – asking whether enrichment and loss arise 'but for' each other – provides the best generalisation for testing whether enrichment and loss are connected, thereby satisfying the requirements of attribution in unjust enrichment.

Enrichment in the Law of Unjust Enrichment and Restitution

Enrichment in the Law of Unjust Enrichment and Restitution
Author: Andrew Lodder
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2012-07-06
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1847319718

Enrichment is key to understanding the law of unjust enrichment and restitution. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the concept of enrichment and its implications for restitutionary awards. Dr Lodder argues that enrichment may be characterised either factually or legally, and explores the consequences of that distinction. In factual enrichment cases, the measure of enrichment is the objective value received. This is the basis of many awards of money had and received, quantum meruit, quantum valebat and money paid. In legal enrichment cases, the benefit is the acquisition of a specific right or the release of a specific obligation. The remedy is restitution of that right or reinstatement of that obligation. It is demonstrated that specific restitution of the defendant's legal enrichment is often the basis for resulting trusts, rescission, rectification and subrogation. This book has profound implications for understanding restitutionary awards and the relationship between the enrichment inquiry and other aspects of the law of unjust enrichment, including the 'at the expense of' inquiry and the defence of change of position.

The Law of Unjust Enrichment

The Law of Unjust Enrichment
Author: Robert Goff Baron Goff of Chieveley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1047
Release: 2016
Genre: Restitution
ISBN: 9780414055230

Présentation de l'éditeur : "Goff & Jones is the leading work on the law of unjust enrichment. The first edition appeared fifty years ago, in 1966, and successive editions have played a major role in establishing the central importance of the subject for private and commercial law. The text is comprehensive in coverage and written by highly respected scholars who analyse and explain the principles governing claims in unjust enrichment, demonstrating how these principles have been applied through detailed discussion of case-law. The book is frequently cited in court and continues to set the agenda for future developments in the field. The new 9th Edition is completely up-to-date and contains detailed discussion of important decisions since the last edition. Many chapters have been rewritten to take account of significant new cases, and their impact on topics including the valuation of enrichments, the recovery of benefits from remote recipients, the recovery of benefits transferred by mistake, the recovery of money paid as tax that is not due, and the content of the tracing rules and their significance for the award of proprietary remedies."

The Oxford Handbook of the New Private Law

The Oxford Handbook of the New Private Law
Author: Andrew S. Gold
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 640
Release: 2020-11-06
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0190919663

"This book discusses developments in scholarship dedicated to reinvigorating the study of the broad domain of private law. This field, which embraces the traditional common law subjects-property, contracts, and torts-as well as adjacent, more statutory areas, such as intellectual property and commercial law, also includes important subjects that have been neglected in the United States but are beginning to make a comeback. The book particularly focuses on the New Private Law, an approach that aims to bring a new outlook to the study of private law by moving beyond reductively instrumentalist policy evaluation and narrow, rule-by-rule, doctrine-by-doctrine analysis, so as to consider and capture how private law's various features fit and work together, as well as the normative underpinnings of these larger structures. This movement is resuscitating the notion of private law itself in United States and has brought an interdisciplinary perspective to the more traditional, doctrinal approach prevalent in Commonwealth countries. The book embraces a broad range of perspectives to private law-including philosophical, economic, historical, and psychological- yet it offers a unifying theme of seriousness about the structure and content of private law."--

GOFF & JONES

GOFF & JONES
Author: PROFESSOR CHARLES. MITCHELL MITCHELL (PROFESSOR PAUL. WATTERSON, DR STEPHEN.)
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2022
Genre:
ISBN: 9780414101913

Research Handbook on Unjust Enrichment and Restitution

Research Handbook on Unjust Enrichment and Restitution
Author: Elise Bant
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2020-07-31
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1788114264

This comprehensive yet accessible Research Handbook offers an expert guide to the key concepts, principles and debates in the modern law of unjust enrichment and restitution.

The Law of Restitution

The Law of Restitution
Author: Andrew S. Burrows
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 789
Release: 2011
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199296529

This highly-praised textbook provides detailed and incisive coverage of all aspects of restitution. The author's expert analysis and clarity of style will be invaluable to both students and practitioners with an interest in this area of law.