Restitution: Civil Liability for Unjust Enrichment

by Ward Farnsworth

Book Overview

Restitution is the body of law concerned with taking away gains that someone has wrongfully obtained. The operator of a Ponzi scheme takes money from his victims by fraud and then invests it in stocks that rise in value. Or a company pays a shareholder excessive dividends or pays them to the wrong person. Or a man poisons his grandfather and then collects under the grandfather's will. In each of these cases, one party is unjustly enriched at the expense...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022614416X
• ISBN13: 9780226144160
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"