An unjust law is no law at all (Latin: lex iniusta non est lex) is an expression in support of natural law, acknowledging that authority is not legitimate...

English law of unjust enrichment is part of the English law of obligations, along with the law of contract, tort, and trusts. The law of unjust enrichment...

Restitution and unjust enrichment is the field of law relating to gains-based recovery. In contrast with damages (the law of compensation), restitution is a claim...

who is then obligated to return the thing to the payer (solvens) involuntary: delicts and quasi-delicts (equivalent to the common-law tort). unjust enrichment...

enforce immoral laws, such laws are legally invalid. The view is captured by the maxim: "an unjust law is no law at all", where 'unjust' means 'contrary...

enacted law, still produces results which many observers find unfair or unjust. The idea of a law of ultimate justice over and above the momentary law of the...

even if actual knowledge of the law is absent for a particular individual. A secret law is no law at all. In criminal law, although ignorance may not clear...

advisory group that he convened to produce A Restatement of the English Law of Unjust Enrichment in the introduction to that work. Some of the most renowned...

definition of injustice is no other than the not performance of covenant. And whatsoever is not unjust is just. The fourth law is that a man which receiveth...

a "law" at all. This is captured, imperfectly, in the famous maxim: lex iniusta non est lex (an unjust law is no law at all). The weak natural law thesis...