Subjects:

Restitution

Contents:

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION

A Core Case

Three Maps

PART TWO: ENRICHMENT AT THE EXPENSE OF THE CLAIMANT

Enrichment

At the Expense of the Claimant

PART THREE: UNJUST

Changing Direction

Absence of Basis

PART FOUR: THE RIGHT TO RESTITUTION

Rights in personam

Rights in rem

PART FIVE: DEFENCES

Disenrichment and Disimpoverishment

Unjust-Related Defences

PART SIX: COMPETING TERMINOLOGY

Competing Generics

Persistent Fragments

This new edition of Unjust Enrichment by the editor of the Clarendon Law Series, is a fully updated, clear and concise account of the law of unjust enrichment.;It attempts to move away from the use of obscure terminology inherited from the past.

This text is the first book to insist on the switch from restitution to unjust enrichment, from response to event.;It organises modern law around five simple questions: Was the defendant enriched? If so, was it at the claimant's expense? If so, was it unjust?;The fourth question is then what kind of right the claimant has, and the fifth is whether the defendant has any defences.

This 2nd edition was revised an updated by the author before his death from cancer on 6th July 2004 at the age of 62.