Unjustified enrichment : key issues in comparative perspective / / edited by David Johnston and Reinhard Zimmermann

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910809913803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, U.K. ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2002
• ISBN: 1-107-12468-9; 1-280-42142-8; 0-511-17636-8; 0-511-04193-4; 0-511-15713-4; 0-511-30439-0; 0-511-49551-X; 0-511-04458-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xlii, 749 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Altri autori (Persone): JohnstonDavid <1961->; ZimmermannReinhard <1952 Oct. 10->
• Disciplina: 346.02/9
• Soggetti: Unjust enrichment
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Enrichment "without legal ground" or unjust factor approach -- Failure of consideration -- Duress and fraud -- Change of position -- Illegality -- Encroachment and restitution for wrongs -- Improvements -- Discharge of another person's debt -- Third-party enrichment -- Proprietary issues -- Taxonomy.
• Sommario/riassunto: Unjustified enrichment has been one of the most intellectually vital areas of private law. There is, however, still no unanimity among civil-law and common-law legal systems about how to structure this important branch of the law of obligations. Several key issues are considered comparatively in this 2002 book, including grounds for recovery of enrichment, defences, third-party enrichment, as well as proprietary and taxonomic questions. Two contributors deal with each topic, one a representative of a common-law system, the other a representative of a civil-law or mixed system. This approach illuminates not just similarities or differences between systems, but ; also what different systems can learn from one another. In an area of law whose territory is still partially uncharted and whose borders are contested, such comparative perspectives will be valuable for both academic analysis of the law and its development by the courts.