Description |
xxx, 461 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents |
1 In memoriam - Professor Peter Birks --2 Unjust enrichment - reason, place and content --3 The normative structure of unjust enrichment --4 Responsibility for gain: unjust factors or absence of legal ground? Starting points in unjust enrichment law --5 Taxonomic lessons for the Supreme Court of Canada --6 Legal positivism and the taxonomy of private law --7 Resitution and the discourse of system --8 Legal realism and the taxonomy of private law --9 Contract and unjust enrichment: competing categories, or complementary concepts? --10 The creation of entitlements through the law of restitution --11 The shock of the old: interpretivism in obligations --12 Advance contractual payments: enforcement and restitution for failure of basis --13 Mistaken improvers and a recognisable law of unjust enrichment --14 Understanding policy-motivated unjust factors --15 Restitutionary liability of public authorities in Canada --16 Towards understanding equitable estoppel --17 Recipient liability under the Torrens System: some category errors --18 Birks and proprietary claims, with special reference to misrepresentation and to ultra vires contracts --19 The resulting trust --20 Rights, remedies, and causes of action --21 Remedy as right |
Summary |
This volume contains a series of thought-provoking essays by scholars of private law as a tribute to Peter Birks, whose work on the law of restitution was seminal and incisive |
Notes |
Festschrift for Peter Birks |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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"The publications of Peter Birks, 1969-2005": pages [441]-452 |
Subject |
Unjust enrichment.
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Civil law.
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Genre/Form |
Festschriften.
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Author |
Birks, Peter, 1941-2004.
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Rickett, C. E. F.
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Grantham, Ross.
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LC no. |
2008274417 |
ISBN |
9781841138077 (hbk.) |
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184113807X (hbk.) |
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