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- English_unjust_enrichment_law abstract "English unjust enrichment law is part of the English law of obligations, alongside contract and tort, and property. A claim in unjust enrichment requires benefits that have been obtained by someone to be given up if it would be "unjust" to retain them. The enrichment must be "unjust" if no valid legal transaction is present, such as a contract, trust, gift or estoppel. "Restitution", or restoration of the unjust gain, to the party to whom the enrichment came from is the main right that follows from an unjust enrichment. English courts have recognised that to found a claim there are four steps: (1) someone has to be enriched, (2) at the expense of someone else, (3) the enrichment must be unjust, and (4) there must be no defence, such as the defendant changing its position on the strength of the enrichment. Around 10 major "unjust factors" are typically recognised in English law, many of which are typically understood in contract as "vitiating factors". If someone receives an enrichment at another's expense, and this is a mistake, it happens with the claimant's ignorance of the transfer, after a failure of consideration, under duress, under undue influence or exploitation, through legal compulsion, out of necessity, when the transaction is illegal, or the claimant lacks capacity or acts ultra vires, then this will found a claim, so long as no defence operates. Unjust enrichment is an action based on strict liability to return the enrichment, and may frequently work concurrently with a claim in tort. For example, if someone is forced to make a contract to transfer property, the "unjust factor" of duress will vitiate the contract. The claimant will be entitled to have their property returned, and will also have a claim in tort against the one who made the threat.The law of unjust enrichment is among the most recent and unsettled areas of English law, because only in 1991, in Lipkin Gorman v Karpnale Ltd, did the senior judiciary endorse unjust enrichment's existence. The principles of enrichment and expense are more stable in cases of transfers of goods or money, but contested in cases where labour and benefits in kind are passed. The scope of unjust factors raises controversy, as does the very approach of English law to require an "unjust factor" be identified, rather than presume there is a claim if facts of transfer are made out (as in a "resulting trust") but no positive act of consent or other legal ground is found. The law's remedial response to unjust enrichment is also contested, particularly regarding the availability of proprietary claims. It is established that proprietary restitution is available for tracing, and some mistakes, although it has not been acknowledged for other unjust factors. One view is that a proprietary response should always be available. A second view is that claims should only generate personal remedies, while an and unrelated to property law. A third view is that proprietary restitution ought generally to be available, unless the law would regard the claimant as having taken on the risk of the defendant's insolvency. The categories of defences are also controversial: "change of position" is a general defence, although the law recognises estoppel, the bona fide purchaser defence, and others as alternatives.".
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