Restitution of Non-Gratuitously Conferred Benefit in Malaysia: A Case for Sowing the Unjust Enrichment Seed

• المؤلف الرئيسي: SEE, Alvin W. L.
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• الموضوعات: Restitution; Unjust Enrichment; Section 71; Contracts Act 1950; Malaysia; Asian Studies; Commercial Law; Comparative and Foreign Law; Contracts
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/1735; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/3687/viewcontent/Alvin_See_Final_Draft.pdf
• المؤسسة: Singapore Management University

This article draws on the common law of unjust enrichment to rationalize and develop the right to recover a non-gratuitously conferred benefit set out in section 71 of Malaysia’s Contracts Act 1950. This attempt at legal transplant and modern restatement is made in the hope of injecting principle an...