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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Ignorantia juris non excusat (redirect from Ignorance of the law is not an excuse)
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Letter from Birmingham Jail (redirect from The Negro Is Your Brother)
disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that 'an unjust law is no law at all.'" Anticipating the claim that one cannot determine such things...
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