Research Catalog

The law of unjust enrichment / Goff & Jones.

Title
The law of unjust enrichment / Goff & Jones.
Author
Goff of Chieveley, Robert Goff, Baron, 1926-2016.
Publication
London : Sweet & Maxwell, 2011.

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors
  • Jones, Gareth H.
  • Mitchell, Charles (Charles Christopher James)
  • Mitchell, Paul, 1972-
  • Watterson, Stephen, 1975-
Description
cxxxv, 901 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
Goff and Jones is the definitive work on restitution providing comprehensive interpretation of all aspects of the subject.
Series Statement
The common law library
Uniform Title
Law of restitution
Alternative Title
  • Goff & Jones, the law of unjust enrichment
  • Goff and Jones, the law of unjust enrichment
  • Law of restitution
Subject
  • Unjust enrichment > England
  • Unjust enrichment > Wales
Note
  • At head of title: Goff & Jones.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- Justifying grounds : statutes, judgments, and natural obligations -- Justifying grounds : contracts -- Enrichment : general principles -- Enrichment : types of benefit -- At the claimant's expense : personal claims -- At the claimant's expense : proprietary claims -- Lack of consent and want of authority -- Mistake -- Duress -- Undue influence and unconscionable bargains -- Failure of basis : general principles -- Failure of basis : bases of transfer -- Failure of basis : deposits -- Frustrated contracts -- Anticipated contracts that do not materialise -- Free acceptance -- Necessity -- Secondary liability : overview -- Secondary liability : contribution and reimbursement -- Secondary liability : insurer's subrogation rights -- Money paid as taxes and other levies that are not due -- Ultra vires payments by public bodies -- Legal incapacity -- Illegality -- Benefits conferred under judgments and orders that are later reversed -- Change of position -- Ministerial receipt -- Bona fide purchase and good consideration -- Estoppel -- Counter-restitution impossible -- Passing on -- Limitation -- Legal incapacity -- Illegality -- Personal remedies -- Proprietary remedies : general principles -- Proprietary remedies : trusts and liens -- Proprietary remedies : subrogation to extinguished proprietary rights -- Proprietary remedies : rescission and rectification.
ISBN
9781847039101
LCCN
^^2011507430