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Undergraduate Course: Unjustified Enrichment (LAWS10053)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Law CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Course typeStandard AvailabilityAvailable to all students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) Credits40
Home subject areaLaw Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionThe structure of a claim for redress of unjustified enrichment. The scope of enrichment law. The internal organisation of enrichment law. Enrichment by transfer: condictio indebiti and error; void and voidable contracts; contracts terminated by frustration or rescission; compulsion; illegality and unenforceability. Enrichment by the act of the enriched or third party: delict or invasion of rights. Obtruding benefits: enrichment of another by improving his property; enrichment of another by payment of his debt. Defences. Measure of recovery. Third party enrichment: payment to wrong person; indirect enrichment. Unjustified enrichment and property law. Constructive trust and tracing. Negotiorum gestio.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesPlease note that you are very unlikely to get a place on an Honours Law course unless you are on a direct exchange with the School of Law (this includes Erasmus law exchange students).
Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus?No
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
The aims of the course are to enable each member of the class to acquire:

* a knowledge and understanding of Scots enrichment law (ie obligations for the redress of unjustified enrichment) including its scope and taxonomy; the principles governing its main categories; and its interface or overlap with closely related fields of private law;
* the ability to use that knowledge and understanding to promote the rights and interests of clients as a lawyer would do in the course of practice; and
* an insight into the way in which doctrinal history and comparative law can aid our understanding of modern legal science and doctrine.
Assessment Information
Essay and exam
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
Academic description Not entered
Syllabus Not entered
Transferable skills Not entered
Reading list Not entered
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserMr Martin Hogg
Tel: (0131 6)50 2071
Email: Martin.Hogg@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Susan Leask
Tel: (0131 6)50 2344
Email: susan.leask@ed.ac.uk
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