Publisher's Synopsis
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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
