The author has taken the opportunity presented by the production of this new paperback edition to revise parts of the text and add a substantial postscript which brings the text up to date. This important work was hailed by scholars worldwide as the most significant recent work on restitution, and a landmark in the development of our understanding of this difficult subject. Students and scholars of common and civil law will welcome this paperback which brings the
work to a wider readership.
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Table Of Contents:
Definition; differentiation; techniques and measures; organization; enrichment at the plaintiff's expense; non-voluntary transfer - vitiation; - qualification; free acceptance; miscellaneous cases - policy-motivated restitution; restitution for wrongs; the second measure of restitution; defences.