Rethinking Unjust Enrichment, Bailment and Necessity: The Kos

In the Kos In The Winson, the House of Lords held that salvors who took steps to prevent deterioration of salved cargo after a salvage agreement had ended had “a correlative right to charge the owner of the goods with the expenses reasonably incurred in doing so”. The nature of such a “correlative r...

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Main Authors: LEE, Ken T. C., SEE, Alvin W. L.
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spelling sg-smu-ink.sol_research-30552013-10-29T03:57:09Z Rethinking Unjust Enrichment, Bailment and Necessity: The Kos LEE, Ken T. C. SEE, Alvin W. L. In the Kos In The Winson, the House of Lords held that salvors who took steps to prevent deterioration of salved cargo after a salvage agreement had ended had “a correlative right to charge the owner of the goods with the expenses reasonably incurred in doing so”. The nature of such a “correlative right” was never easily understood, despite the “bewildering number of theories” that have been put forward. The Kos represents the latest attempts by the courts to explain and apply the principle expounded in The Winson. The intricacy of this task was illustrated by the fact that the High Court and the Court of Appeal in the case reached different conclusions in doing so. 2011-01-01T08:00:00Z text https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/1103 http://www.i-law.com/ilaw/doc/view.htm?id=267690 Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Commercial Law
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Rethinking Unjust Enrichment, Bailment and Necessity: The Kos
description In the Kos In The Winson, the House of Lords held that salvors who took steps to prevent deterioration of salved cargo after a salvage agreement had ended had “a correlative right to charge the owner of the goods with the expenses reasonably incurred in doing so”. The nature of such a “correlative right” was never easily understood, despite the “bewildering number of theories” that have been put forward. The Kos represents the latest attempts by the courts to explain and apply the principle expounded in The Winson. The intricacy of this task was illustrated by the fact that the High Court and the Court of Appeal in the case reached different conclusions in doing so.
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author LEE, Ken T. C.
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title Rethinking Unjust Enrichment, Bailment and Necessity: The Kos
title_short Rethinking Unjust Enrichment, Bailment and Necessity: The Kos
title_full Rethinking Unjust Enrichment, Bailment and Necessity: The Kos
title_fullStr Rethinking Unjust Enrichment, Bailment and Necessity: The Kos
title_full_unstemmed Rethinking Unjust Enrichment, Bailment and Necessity: The Kos
title_sort rethinking unjust enrichment, bailment and necessity: the kos
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2011
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/1103
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