unjust enrichment

unjust enrichment definition - legal

n

  1. The keeping of a benefit bestowed or performed by another without offering appropriate compensation, in circumstances where compensation is appropriate.
  2. A benefit conferred by another and neither intended as a gift nor legally appropriate, for which the recipient must make restitution or payment.
  3. The portion of the law that treats unjustifiable enrichment of either of the foregoing types.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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