Research Catalog

Title

The law of restitution / by Robert Goff and Gareth Jones.

Author

Goff of Chieveley, Robert Goff, Baron, 1926-2016.

Publication

London : Sweet & Maxwell, 1966.

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Details

Additional Authors

Jones, Gareth H.

Description

lxxxix, 540 p.; 26 cm.

Subject

Restitution > Great Britain

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 509-512.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• I. Introduction. 1. General principles -- 2. Proprietary claims -- II. The right to restitution. Section 1. Where the defendant has acquired a benefit from or by the act of the plaintiff. A. Mistake. 3. Recovery of money paid under mistake -- 4. Restitution in respect of chattels (other than money) transferred under a mistake -- 5. Recovery of land transferred under a mistake -- 6. Restitution in respect of services rendered under a mistake -- 7. Relief from transactions entered into under a mistake -- B. Compulsion. 8. Recovery of benefits conferred under duress -- 9. Recovery of benefits conferred under undue influence -- 10. Relief from unconscionable bargains -- 11. The right to contribution -- 12. Compulsory discharge of another's liability -- 13. Recovery of benefits conferred under judgments or orders subsequently reversed or set aside -- C. Necessity. Restitution in respect of benefits conferred in an emergency without request. 14. Restitution at common law --^
• 15. Maritime salvage -- D. Ineffective transactions. 16. Introduction -- 17. Contracts void for want of authority -- 18. Contracts void for mistake or uncertainty -- 19. Contracts affected by informality -- 20. Illegal contracts -- 21. Contracts affected by incapacity -- 22. Contracts discharged through frustration or breach -- 23. Anticipated contracts which do not materialise -- 24. Restitution of benefits conferred under trusts which do not exhaust the beneficial interest or which fail -- 25. Conditional gifts -- Section 2. Where the defendant has acquired from a third party a benefit for which he must account to the plaintiff. 26. Attornment -- 27. Subrogation -- 28. A right akin to subrogation : adoption of the benefit of unauthorised transactions -- 29. Cases where the defendant without right intervenes between the plaintiff and a third party -- 30. Claims under a will or intestacy or under an inter vivos trust --^
• 31. Fraudulent and voluntary dispositions of property and voidable preferences -- 32. Perfection of imperfect gifts in favour of intended donees -- Section 3. Where the defendant has acquired a benefit through his own wrongful act. 33. Waiver of tort -- 34. Benefits accruing to a criminal from his crime -- 35. Benefits acquired in breach of fiduciary relationships -- 36. Breach of contract -- III. Defences. 37. Introduction -- 38. Res judicata and election -- 39. Illegality -- 40. Contracting out of restitutionary rights -- 41. Statutes of limitation and laches -- 42. Change of position and estoppel -- 43. Bona fide purchase -- IV. Restitution in the conflict of laws. 44. Restitution in the conflict of laws.

LCCN

^^^66003486^

OCLC

1523074

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library