Journal article
Mistaken payments, quasi-contracts, and the “justice” of unjust enrichment
- Abstract:
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The law of unjust enrichment has often been described as the law of events materially identical to a mistaken payment. By this, lawyers often mean that the cause of action in unjust enrichment is somehow shaped and grounded by the reason why the recipient of (some) mistaken payments morally ought to refund the payor. The difficulty, however, is that the normativity of mistaken payments remains a challenge to explain. This article aims to reinvigorate the view that the moral duty to return mis...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Oxford Journal of Legal Studies Journal website
- Volume:
- 42
- Pages:
- 606-606
- Publication date:
- 2021-12-24
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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0143-6503
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- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
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1314306
- Local pid:
- pubs:1314306
- Deposit date:
- 2022-12-10
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- Copyright holder:
- Alexander Georgiou
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.
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