It is also sometimes referred to as detrimental reliance.

He held that the belief, for detrimental reliance, need not relate to a clearly identified piece of property.

Perhaps the executive has a claim of fraud or detrimental reliance, but without a written contract, such claims are nearly impossible to prove.

Thirdly, as the doctrine is based on detrimental reliance, the agreement only concretized on the death of the other party.

All reliance-based estoppels require the victimised party to show both inducement and detrimental reliance, i.e.:

The court adopted the position of the Restatement of Contracts, Second that charitable subscriptions can be enforced even without consideration or detrimental reliance.

Re Hobley adopts the unconscionability rationale such that the imposition of a constructive trust is only justified by unconscionability, therefore there must be detrimental reliance.

Salsbury v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Co., 221 N.W.2d 609 (IA 1974) charitable subscriptions can be enforced without consideration or detrimental reliance.

Because a constructive trust is an equitable device, the defendant can raise all of the available equitable defenses against it - including unclean hands, laches, detrimental reliance, and undue hardship.

"If there has been any detrimental reliance by local authorities, there could be a basis for a claim in legitimate expectation," said Richard Gordon QC, a public law barrister at Brick Court chambers.

Through a recent development in common law, beginning with 'Hedley Byrne v Heller'1964 AC 465 in 1964 a victim of the tort of negligent misstatement may recover damages for pure economic loss caused by detrimental reliance on the statement.

"That's a great question, and while it is possible that they could claim some kind of 'detrimental reliance' on Sony's keeping the network up and running, Sony could likely argue 'force majeure' (a major catastrophe beyond their control) as a defense," Pachter told Ars.