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Excerpt from Selected Cases on the Law of Quasi-Contracts This volume is intended to contain a representative selection of cases upon the large and important group of legal duties embraced in the term quasi-contract, and to afford material for the study and discussion of the principles regulating recovery in that class of cases, as those principles are found implicated with, and working upon, the actual facts of decided cases. For the historical development of the law of quasi-contracts, the student is referred to the masterly History of Assumpsit, by Professor Ames, which he has kindly permitted to be republished as an appendix to this volume. The primary division of the work into three par...
Excerpt from A Selection of Cases on the Law of Quasi-Contracts, Vol. 1 This collection of cases deals in the main with that portion of the law of quasi-contracts depending on the theory of unjust enrichment, and enforceable at common law by the use of the indebitatus counts. While much that is exclusively of equitable cognizance might properly be discussed under the title of quasi-contracts, the fact that such topics are treated in other courses in the School renders it unnecessary to refer to them in a collection intended primarily for the use of Harvard Law Students. That Quasi-Contracts has been chosen as a title will not be a surprise to any one familiar with the confusion existing in t...
Gives a fairly full account of restitution (quasi-contract) law, both English and Australian, as it can be seen in 1988 and perhaps beyond.