Structure and Justification in Private Law : Essays for Peter Birks.
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- 9781847314123
- 346
- K920.S77 2008
Half title page -- Title page -- Title verso -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Table of Cases -- Table of Legislation -- 1 In Memoriam Professor Peter Birks Regius Professor of Civil Law, University of Oxford -- 2 Unjust Enrichment-Reason, Place and Content -- Part 1 Why Restitution? -- 3 The Normative Structure of Unjust Enrichment -- 4 Responsibility for Gain: Unjust Factors or Absence of Legal Ground? Starting Points in Unjust Enrichment Law -- Part 2 The Place of Unjust Enrichment in the Private Law -- 5 Taxonomic Lessons for the Supreme Court of Canada -- 6 Legal Positivism and the Taxonomy of Private Law -- 7 Restitution 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: Interpretivismin Obligations -- Part 3 Issues in the Law of Unjust Enrichment -- 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 -- The Publications of Peter Birks 1969-2005 -- Index.
This volume, written by legal experts, is a tribute to Peter Birks, and a series of thought-provoking essays inspired by his example.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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