The Foundations Of Restitution For Wrongs
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| Author | : Francesco Giglio |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2007-03-06 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1847313531 |
'Restitution for wrongs', or 'restitutionary damages', is the judicial award which compels the wrongdoer to give up to the victim the benefit obtained through the perpetration of the wrong, independently of any loss suffered by the victim. The establishment of a civil trial in Roman law, which left compensation as the main response, and a widespread, loss-centred interpretation of the Aristotelian theory of corrective justice explain, but do not justify the difficulties encountered by modern attempts to account for restitutionary damages. Mistakes in the classification of this institution have complicated the picture. To overcome some of these problems, this study considers the basic structure of restitutionary damages from different angles. In part one, the topic is analysed from a comparative perspective. Although the focus remains on English law, the German, the Italian and the Roman jurisdictions provide research data which, in part two, support the development of a theory of restitution for wrongs as corrective justice.
| Author | : James Steven Rogers |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 39 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
The law of restitution has been the forgotten step-child of American private law for many decades. The American Law Institute's current project to produce a new restatement of the law of restitution holds the promise of bringing the subject to the foreground and removing some of the confusion that many lawyers and judges feel in approaching the topic.One of the important issues that must be addressed in any comprehensive treatment of the law of restitution is how to treat those areas where the possibility of recovery based on the unjust enrichment principle overlaps with recovery based on the law of contract or tort. In those areas, it has been common to regard the law of restitution as quot;parasitic,quot; that is, it is widely assumed the other law determines whether conduct is rightful or wrongful; restitution simply provides an additional remedy in those cases where the conduct is wrongful.The thesis of this article is that this common view of the relationship between restitution and tort is wrong. It argues that it is not helpful to think that the law of tort is the natural source of judgments about what is rightful and what is wrongful. That is, the contribution of the law of restitution in that area is more than to provide an additional remedy for conduct that is judged wrongful under the law of tort or other law.The topic is not only important and timely, it has an attribute not often found in law - it's fun. How can one resist an area where the cases themselves involve such matters as trespass in the Great Onyx Cave or wrongful use of an egg washing machine, and where explanation of the problems brings to mind the Three Little Pigs or musings about the dealings between crusty old Vermonters and New York tourists?
| 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.
| Author | : Lionel Smith |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 590 |
| Release | : 2020-11-25 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1000113949 |
This title was first published in 2001. In the Western legal tradition, the history of restitution for unjust enrichment reaches back to pre-classical Roman law. In common law, the roots of unjust enrichment may be said to lie in the fourteenth century; but its history as a subject of academic study is much shorter. The law of restitution has become increasingly important in the courts of the common law world during the last decade. This has generated a great deal of scholarly attention and there has been an explosion of literature as legal academics have addressed the theoretical foundations of the subject, its structure and its underlying principles.
| Author | : Graham Virgo |
| Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
| Total Pages | : 892 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 9780198763772 |
This new textbook outlines the general principles of the rapidly developing subject of the Law of Restitution. Restitution is concerned with the reversing of unjust enrichment and was recently recognized as a discrete body of law by the House of Lords although restitutionary principles have in fact been evolving for over 200 years. Rather than taking the traditional approach which assumes that restitutionary remedies will be awarded against a defendant only where it can be shown that the defendant has been unjustly enriched at the expense of the plaintiff.The book asserts that the law of restitution is simply concerned with the question of when restitutionary remedies may be awarded, that is remedies which are assessed by reference to a benefit obtained by the defendant. But in determining whether restitutionary remedies are available it is necessary to identify the causes of the action which triggers them. There are three such causes of action, namely the reversal of the defendants unjust enrichment, the commission of a wrong by the defendant, and the vindication of the defendants property rights. The state of the law is examined through analyses of the statutory provisions and key cases demonstrating the way the law is used to resolve a wide variety of legal problems. The very different views of academics as to the nature and ambit of the subject are also identified. This book will be invaluable to students on restitution courses at every level.
| Author | : Peter Birks |
| Publisher | : Victoria University Press |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 9780864734303 |
Six public lectures given by Peter Birks when he was the Centennial Visiting Fellow at the Victoria University of Wellington Law School in August and September 1999.
| Author | : Andrew S. Burrows |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1101 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0199296510 |
Written by leading experts who have shaped and defined the law of restitution, the book provides an authoritative and scholarly guide to the subject. The second edition of this seminal title continues the formula of the first edition by combining a comprehensive coverage of cases with extracts from leading academic authorities.
| Author | : Ward Farnsworth |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 189 |
| Release | : 2014-10-14 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 022614433X |
Restitution is the body of law concerned with taking away gains that someone has wrongfully obtained. The operator of a Ponzi scheme takes money from his victims by fraud and then invests it in stocks that rise in value. Or a company pays a shareholder excessive dividends or pays them to the wrong person. Or a man poisons his grandfather and then collects under the grandfather’s will. In each of these cases, one party is unjustly enriched at the expense of another. And in all of them the law of restitution provides a way to undo the enrichment and transfer the defendant’s gains to a party with better rights to them. Tort law focuses on the harm, or costs, that one party wrongfully imposes on another. Restitution is the mirror image; it corrects gains that one party wrongfully receives at another’s expense. It is an important topic for every lawyer and for anyone else interested in how the legal system responds to injustice. In Restitution, Ward Farnsworth presents a guide to this body of law that is compact, lively, and insightful—the first treatment of its kind that the American law of restitution has received. The book explains restitution doctrines, remedies, and defenses with unprecedented clarity and illustrates them with vivid examples. Farnsworth demonstrates that the law of restitution is guided by a manageable and coherent set of principles that have remarkable versatility and power. Restitution makes a complex and important area of law accessible, understandable, and interesting to any reader.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Equitable remedies |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Graham Virgo |
| Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
| Total Pages | : 800 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Restitution |
| ISBN | : 9780198763765 |
This new textbook outlines the general principles of the rapidly developing subject of the Law of Restitution. Restitution is concerned with the reversing of unjust enrichment and was recently recognized as a discrete body of law by the House of Lords although restitutionary principles havein fact been evolving for over 200 years. Rather than taking the traditional approach which assumes that restitutionary remedies will be awarded against a defendant only where it can be shown that the defendant has been unjustly enriched at the expense of the plaintiff.The book asserts that the law of restitution is simply concerned withthe question of when restitutionary remedies may be awarded, that is remedies which are assessed by reference to a benefit obtained by the defendant. But in determining whether restitutionary remedies are available it is necessary to identify the causes of the action which triggers them. There arethree such causes of action, namely the reversal of the defendants unjust enrichment, the commission of a wrong by the defendant, and the vindication of the defendants property rights. The state of the law is examined through analyses of the statutory provisions and key cases demonstrating the way the law is used to resolve a wide variety of legal problems. The very different views of academics as to the nature and ambit of the subject are also identified. This book should beinvaluable to students on restitution courses at every level.
