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Title

Restitution in private international law / George Panagopoulos.

Author

Panagopoulos, George.

Publication

Oxford [England] ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2000.

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Description

xxxvi, 274 pages; 25 cm

Summary

• "The central part of the book examines the choice of law rule for restitutionary issues, and reviews the different approaches adopted in the US and UK and in other parts of the common law world. After weighing the merits of the different approaches, the author adopts a choice of law rule for restitutionary issues which is the proper law of the unjust factor. Depending on whether the unjust factor is event-based or law-based, the choice of law rule will focus on either the law of the place, or alternatively, the legal system with which the unjust factor has its closest and most real connection." "Jurisdiction is an area of increasing importance in private international law, and the book provides a thorough analysis of the topic of jurisdiction for restitutionary claims, both under the Brussels Convention as well as the traditional common law rules contained in the Civil Procedure Rules.".
• "This is an important and timely new work for all lawyers interested in restitution, private international law and international commercial litigation."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Conflict of laws > Restitution
• Conflict of laws > Unjust enrichment
• 86.36 private international law
• Internationaal privaatrecht
• Europees bevoegdheids- en executieverdrag
• Restitutie
• Reparation (Criminal justice)
• Restitution
• Conflict of laws
• Restitution > Great Britain
• Great Britain
• Private international law

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxv]-xxxvi) and index.

Contents

• INTRODUCTION -- Part I: A map through the law of restitution -- 1. A MAP THROUGH THE LAW OF RESTITUTION -- 1. The existence of a separate law of restitution -- 2. The elements of a restitutionary claim -- 2.1 Enrichment -- 2.2 At the plaintiff's expense -- 2.3 Unjust receipt of the value of the benefit -- 3. Personal and proprietary remedies -- proprietary restitution -- 3.1 The nature of proprietary restitution -- 3.2 Proprietary claims and proprietary restitution -- 3.3 Circumstances giving rise to proprietary restitution -- 4. Restitution for wrongs -- 4.1 Availability of restitution for wrongs -- 4.2 Taxonomic location of restitution for wrongs -- 5. Tracing -- 5.1 What is tracing -- 5.2 Why do we trace? -- 5.3 Tracing at law and in equity -- 6. Defences -- 6.1 Change of position -- 6.2 Defence of Bona Fide purchaser -- Part II: Characterisation of restitutionary claims -- 2. CHARACTERISATION IN GENERAL -- 1. The need for characterization -- 2. The process of characterization -- 2.1 Problems associated with characterisation -- 2.2 The "thing" to be characterised? -- 3. CHARACTERISATION OF RESTITUTIONARY CLAIMS -- 1. One issue or several -- 2. The arguments in favour of a single characterisation issue -- 2.1 Consistent with the approach in relation to contract and tort -- 2.2 Permutations of legal systems -- 2.3 Consistent with authority -- 2.4 Macmillan v. Bishopsgate: which is the issue? -- 4. SPECIFIC RESTITUTIONARY CHARACTERISATIONS -- 1. Restitution and contract -- 1.1 Independent restitutionary issue -- 1.2 The scope of the restitutionary issue -- 1.3 Restitution for breach of contract -- 2. Characterisation of equitable rights and obligations -- 3. Proprietary restitution -- 3.1 The proprietary approach -- 3.1.1 Characterisation of issuees affecting property -- 3.1.2 Proprietary restitution as part of the law of property -- 3.2 The restitutionary approach to characterisation -- 3.2.1 A pure restitutionary characterisation -- 3.3 The "equity" aspect of proprietary restitution -- 3.3.1 The in personam nature of equity -- 3.3.2 In personam characterisation of proprietary restitution -- 3.3.3 Equitable interests created via consensual transfers -- 3.4 The hybrid approach to the characterisation of proprietary restitution -- 3.4.1 The scope of the ancillary proprietary issue -- 4. Characterisation of restitution for wrongs -- 4.1 Characterisation as "wrongs" -- 4.2 Case dealing with international restitution for wongs -- 4.3 Characterisation of equitable wrongs -- 4.3.1 Characterisation of equitable wrongs as breaches of trust -- 4.3.2 Characterisation of equitable wrongs as breaches of contract -- 4.3.3 Characterisation of equitable wrongs as "wrongs" -- 4.3.4 Claims for "knowing receipt" -- 5. A separate issue of tracing? -- 5.1 The tracing problem -- 5.2 The approaches -- 5.2.1 Procedural or substantive issue? -- 5.2.2 A separate choice of law rule? -- 5.2.3 Characterisation of tracing -- 5.2.4 Interest in the tracing process -- 5.3 Ancillary issues -- 5.3.1 Intermediate purchases or acquisitions -- 5.3.2 Tracing in equity and at law -- 6. Negotiorum gestio -- 5. THEORETICAL ISSUES -- 1. Renvoi -- 2. The incidental question.
• Part III: Choice of law rules for restitutionary issues -- 6. THE EXISTING AUTHORITIES -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dicey and Morris -- 3. U.S. restatement -- 4. Other academic opinion -- 5. The English law case -- 6. Other common law cases -- 7. THE VARIOUS PROPOSED CHOICE OF LAW RULES -- 1. The place of enrichment rule -- 1.1 Arguments in favour of place of enrichment rule -- 1.2 Arguments against the place of enrichment rule -- 1.2.1 Unsound foundation -- 1.2.2 No general "place of enrichment" rule -- 1.2.3 Ignoring other elements of a restitutionary claim -- 1.2.4 Arbitrary result -- 1.2.5 Meaning of place of enrichment -- 2. Lex fori -- 3. Multiple choice of law rules -- 3.1 Law of the contract -- 3.2 Law of the relationship -- 3.3 Lex situs of immovables -- 4. Proper law of the obligation -- 5. Proposed convention on the law applicable to non-contractual obligations -- 5.1 Scope of the draft proposal -- 5.2 Choice of law rule -- 8. PREFERRED CHOICE OF LAW RULE -- 1. The essential element of the unjust factor -- 2. Determining the proper law of the unjust factor -- 2.1 Mistake -- 2.2 Illegitimate pressure -- 2.3 Failure of consideration -- 2.4 Unauthorised transfer -- 2.5 Restitution for wrongs -- 2.6 Legal compulsion -- 2.7 Ultra vires payments -- 2.8 Illegality and incapacity -- 3. Unjust and unjustified -- Part IV: Jurisdiction in restitutionary claims -- 9. JURISDICTION UNDER THE BRUSSELS CONVENTION -- 1. Background to the convention -- 2. Interpreting the convention -- 3. The scope of the convention -- 4. Application of the convention -- 4.1 The general rule -- 4.2 Special jurisdiction -- 4.2.1 Article 5(1) -- Matters relating to a contract -- 4.2.2 Article 5(3) -- Matters relating to tort, delict or quasi-delict -- 4.3 Particular types of restitutionary claims -- 4.3.1 Restitutionary claims connected with a contract -- Article 5(1) -- 4.3.2 Choice of court agreements -- Article 17 -- 4.3.3 Proprietary restitutionary claims in relation to land -- Article 16(1) -- 4.4 Other particular types of restitutionary claims -- 4.4.1 Claims in equity -- 4.4.2 Proprietary restitution -- 4.4.3 Restitution for wrongs -- 10. JURISDICTION UNDER THE COMMON LAW RULES -- 1. Service out of the jurisdiction -- 2. Heads of jurisdiction -- 2.1 Sub-rule (15): claim for restitution -- 2.1.1 Questions of choice of law -- 2.2 Sub-rules (5) and (6): claims in relation to contracts -- 2.2.1 Implied contract made within the jurisdiction -- 2.2.2 Breach of implied contract within the jurisdiction -- 2.2.3 The preferred aproach -- 2.2.4 Restitutionary claims connected with a contract -- 2.3 Sub-rule (8): claims in tort -- 2.3.1 Meanings of "tort" -- 2.3.2 Damage sustained within the jurisdiction -- 2.3.3 Act committed within the jurisdiction -- 2.4 Sub-rule (10): property within the jurisdiction -- CONCLUSION -- Appendix -- Index.

ISBN

• 1841131423
• 9781841131429

LCCN

2001272330

OCLC

• ocm44737331
• 44737331
• SCSB-1201505

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library