Quasi-contrats et enrichissement injustifié en droit français (Quasi-Contracts and Unjustified Enrichment in French Law)

Abstract:     
Of Justinian’s four classes of obligations (ex contractu, quasi ex contractu, ex delicto, quasi ex delicto), the quasi-contractual one has resisted rationalization the longest. This paper makes the claim that quasi-contracts should disappear, as a category, from French law and be replaced with a general action in unjustified enrichment. It also explores the difficulties that such a switch would entail.

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Keywords: Unjust enrichment, enrichment without ground, French law, quasi-contracts, condictio indebiti, solutio indebiti, negotiorum gestio, restitution, unjustified enrichment, enrichissement sans cause, enrichissement injustifié, quasi-contrats, droit français, gestion d'affaires, paiement de l'indu

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