Journal article
What’s “unjust” about unjust enrichment: an answer at last?
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The law of unjust enrichment has been dogged by a persistent question: what explains the claimant’s entitlement to restitution from the defendant? For Professor Birks, the answer lay in appeal to the simple intuition that the payor of a mistaken payment was entitled to its return;1 but this view of the law, which principally focuses on the combination of some enrichment of the defendant and some vitiation of the claimant’s will, is not short of modern-day detractors.2 However, the leading alt...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Informa Business Intelligence Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly Journal website
- Volume:
- 2021
- Issue:
- Part 1
- Pages:
- 63-71
- Publication date:
- 2021-03-12
- ISSN:
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0306-2945
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- English
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1314300
- Local pid:
- pubs:1314300
- Deposit date:
- 2022-12-10
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- Informa UK plc
- Copyright date:
- 2021
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- © Informa UK plc.
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