Selected Cases on the Law of Quasi-Contracts (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Woodruff, Edwin H.

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ISBN 10: 1330178475 ISBN 13: 9781330178478

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

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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 parts was determined by the broad classification first given by Professor Ames in his History of Assumpsit, and adopted by Professor Keener in the introductory chapter to his Treatise on Quasi-Contracts. However, by far the greater part of the subject is comprised in Part III, under the general doctrine of "Unjust Enrichment," and the arrangement employed by the present editor for this part, while not the only feasible grouping, will, it is hoped, be practically satisfactory. As Dr. Johnson says in his essay on Pope: "Of two or more positions depending upon some remote or general principle, there is seldom any cogent reason why one should precede the other;" and so, while the cases in Part III depend upon the very general principle of "Unjust Enrichment," and while a cogent reason cannot always be given why some of these positions should precede others, nevertheless the special correlation of analogous topics has been the guide to the present arrangement. It may be added that the only essay at a completely developed classification of the law of quasi-contracts which has thus far been published, is the one offered tentatively by Professor Wigmore, in 25 American Laiv Reznezv, 695 (1891). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Fi

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Excerpt from Selected Cases on the Law of Quasi-Contracts

In 1888, Professor Ames, in his History of Assumpsit, said: The equitable principle which lies at the foundation of the great bulk of quasi-contracts, namely, that one person shall not unjustly enrich himself at the expense of another, has established itself very gradu ally in the Common Law. Indeed one seeks in vain to - day in the treatises upon the Law of Contract for an adequate account of the nature, importance and numerous applications of this principle. Later in the same, and in the next following year, Professor Keener published his Cases on the Law of quasi-contracts, and in 1893, his Treatise on the Law of quasi-contracts. In those pioneer works he segregated the rules of this branch of the law, and in his Treatise, which is a penetrating, critical analysis of the subject, delimited the field for subsequent workers. But the literature Of the subject is still comparatively meager, and therefore this collection of cases will, it is hoped, prove useful to the practicing lawyer as well as to law students.

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• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1330178475
• ISBN 13: 9781330178478
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 714