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unjust enrichment

When a person has received and retains money or goods that in fairness belong to another. A lawsuit is typically required to recover unjust enrichment.

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  1. Unjust enrichment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Unjust enrichment is a legal term denoting a particular type of causative event in which one party is unjustly enriched at the expense of another, and an ...
     
  2. Unjust Enrichment - Legal Dictionary - The Free Dictionary
    A general equitable principle that no person should be allowed to profit at another's expense without making restitution for the reasonable value of any property, ...
     
  3. Unjust enrichment | LII / Legal Information Institute
    The retention of a benefit conferred by another, that is not intended as a gift and is not legally justifiable, without offering compensation, in circumstances where ...
     
  4. Unjust Enrichment - Legal Dictionary | Law.com
    unjust enrichment. n. a benefit by chance, mistake or another's misfortune for which the one enriched has not paid or worked and morally and ethically should ...
     
  5. Unjust Enrichment Law & Legal Definition
    Unjust enrichment means when a person unfairly gets a benefit by chance, mistake or another's misfortune for which the one enriched has not paid or worked ...
     
  6. Unjust Enrichment | LegalMatch Law Library
    Jun 14, 2012 ... Find Unjust Enrichment and Attorneys in your area. Unjust enrichment occurs when one person receives benefits at the expense of another.
     
  7. Distinguishing Quantum Meruit and Unjust Enrichment in the
    It is not uncommon in construction litigation for practitioners to confuse the theories of recovery commonly known as “quantum meruit” and “unjust enrichment.
     
  8. Unjust Enrichment
    relatively new basis of liability, unjust enrichment is now the most dynamic of all areas of ... Scholars have contended that unjust enrichment adds little to the ...