unjustified enrichment

"The evolution of the law of unjustified enrichment"

Riba is an unjustified enrichment and the principle encompasses a total ban on the charging of interest.

Remedies for unjustified enrichment apply when a person other than the owner receives benefit at the expense of the owner.

He teaches courses in the law of contract, sale, insurance, unjustified enrichment and also part of a course on Legal Skills.

It was employed mostly to prevent "unjustified enrichment" of the heirs of authors of successful works.

Markom's possible unjustified enrichment.

A transfer made in purported fulfilment of an obligation that is invalid for uncertainty can be reclaimed with remedies based on unjustified enrichment.

Another source of obligations is unjustified enrichment, which occurs when there is a shift of wealth from one person's estate to another without good legal grounds or cause.

The Doctrine of Duress in the Law of Contract and Unjustified Enrichment in South Africa.

His book "System der Rechte auf den Eingriffserwerb", published in 1909, is still seen as an important contribution to the German Law of Unjustified Enrichment today.

The city council even opened legal procedures against a few of its district sheriffs against whom there were many complaints from the rural population, accusing them of corruption, incompetence, and unjustified enrichment.

Enrichment liens, based on the principle of unjustified enrichment, arise in those cases where one person has incurred expenses on someone else's property without that someone's consent, or without a legal obligation to do so.

The principal debt usually arises out of a contract, but it may also arise out of a delict or unjustified enrichment, a natural obligation (valid but not legally enforceable) and an obligation subject to a condition.

Due to the significant restrictions placed on gold trading by Roosevelt's reforms, the Court ruled that the bond-holders' loss was unquantifiable, and that to repay them in dollars according to the 1918 standard of value would be an "unjustified enrichment".

Amcor, a real estate and agricultural company in Coachella, Calif., discloses in its proxy that Travelmax is suing Mr. Paisley and others for "fraud, misappropriation of funds, breach of fiduciary duty and unjustified enrichment."

After receiving his PhD degree in 2003 for a thesis entitled The Doctrine of Duress in the Law of Contract and Unjustified Enrichment in South Africa, he was appointed senior lecturer in 2004, and in 2008 became an associate professor.

Scots Law also still recognises the action of condictio causa data causa non secuta among the other condictiones, as was shown in the landmark case, in the field of unjustified enrichment (restitiution), of Shilliday v Smith (especially per Lord President Rodger).

If the debtor is unaware that his obligation is to a new creditor (i.e., the cessionary), he may still discharge his obligation to the cedent, in which case the cessionary will lose his claim (although he may have an action for unjustified enrichment against the cedent).