Goff & Jones : the law of unjust enrichment / edited by Charles Mitchell, Paul Mitchell and Stephen Watterson.

London : Sweet & Maxwell, 2016.

9th edition

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The law of unjust enrichment.

Goff & Jones : the law of restitution.

The law of restitution.

Restitution -- Great Britain.

PART 1- Introduction

1. Unjust enrichment and restitution

PART 2 - Justifying grounds

2. Justifying grounds: statutes, judgments and natural obligations

3. Justifying grounds: contracts

PART 3 - Enrichment

4. Enrichment: general principles

5. Enrichment: types of benefit

PART 4 - At the claimant's expense

6. At the claimant's expense: personal claims

7. At the claimant's expense: proprietary claims

PART 5 - Grounds for restitution

8. Lack of consent and want of authority

9. Mistake

10. Duress

11. Undue influence and unconscionable bargains

12. Failure of basis: general principles

13. Failure of basis: bases of transfer

14. Failure of basis: deposits

15. Frustrated contracts

16. Anticipated contracts that do not materialise

17. Free acceptance

18. Necessity

19. Secondary liability: overview

20. Secondary liability: contribution and reimbursement

21. Secondary liability: insurers' subrogation rights

22. Money paid as taxes and other levies that are not due

23. Ultra Vires payments by public bodies

24. Legal incapacity

25. Illegality

26. Benefits conferred under judgments and orders that are later reversed

PART 6 - Defences

27. Change of position

28. Ministerial receipt

29. Bona Fide purchase and good consideration

30. Estoppel

31. Counter-restitution impossible

32. Passing on

33. Limitation

34. Legal incapacity

35. Illegality

PART 7 - Remedies

36. Personal remedies and interest awards

37. Proprietary remedies: general principles

38. Proprietary remedies: trusts and liens

39. Proprietary remedies: subrogation to extinguished proprietary rights

40. Proprietary remedies: rescission and rectification

Index.

Goff & Jones is the leading work on the law of unjust enrichment. The first edition appeared fifty years ago, in 1966, and successive editions have played a major role in establishing the central importance of the subject for private and commercial law. The text is comprehensive in coverage and written by highly respected scholars who analyse and explain the principles governing claims in unjust enrichment, demonstrating how these principles have been applied through detailed discussion of case-law. The book is frequently cited in court and continues to set the agenda for future developments in the field. The new 9th Edition is completely up-to-date and contains detailed discussion of important decisions since the last edition. Many chapters have been rewritten to take account of significant new cases, and their impact on topics including the valuation of enrichments, the recovery of benefits from remote recipients, the recovery of benefits transferred by mistake, the recovery of money paid as tax that is not due, and the content of the tracing rules and their significance for the award of proprietary remedies. - Publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780414055230

cxli, 1047 pages ; 24 cm