Unjustified Enrichment (hard cover) - Daniel Visser

• The classification of the law of unjustified enrichment
• The internal structure of enrichment liability

PART II: THE DIFFERENT FORMS OF ENRICHMENT LIABILITY

• Enrichment by transfer: General principles
• Reversing an undue transfer:
  • Transfer of money or property to fulfil a putative obligation ('mistaken payment')
  • Transfer of money or property under compulsion
  • Transfer of money or property in terms of an illegal agreement
  • Knowing transfer of money or property in terms of a void (but not illegal) contract to achieve a specific purpose
    Reversing transfers in the context of failed contracts
• Imposed enrichment (Enrichment due to unauthorised expenditure)
• Enrichment by invasion of the rights of others (Enrichment by act of the party enriched)

PART III: DEFENCES

• Defences: loss of enrichment; estoppel; passing-on; and prescription

Of Interest and Benefit to:

• Academics, both in South Africa and abroad
• Judges
• Legal practitioners
• Students
• Libraries