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Title Structure and justification in private law : essays for Peter Birks / edited by Charles Rickett and Ross Grantham
Published Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart, 2008

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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
"The publications of Peter Birks, 1969-2005": pages [441]-452
Subject Unjust enrichment.
Civil law.
Genre/Form Festschriften.
Author Birks, Peter, 1941-2004.
Rickett, C. E. F.
Grantham, Ross.
LC no. 2008274417
ISBN 9781841138077 (hbk.)
184113807X (hbk.)