| 单词 | quasi-contract |
| 释义 | ˈquasi-ˌcontract Law.
[quasi adv. and prefix.]
(See quot. 19591.) Hence ˌquasi-conˈtractual a.
[1618in Eng. Reports (1907) LXXX. 353 For though there was no actual contract, yet there was a kind of contract in law, so it is ex quasi contractu.] 1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v., In a quasi-contract, one party may be bound..without having given his consent. 1806W. D. Evans tr. Pothier's Treat. Law of Obligations, or Contracts I. i. i. 69 A Quasi contract is the act of a person permitted by the law which obliges him in favour of another, without any agreement intervening between them. 1847Louisiana Supreme Court Ann. Rep. 1846 I. 380 The act of a party in taking as security for a loan of money made to an agent for his private use, a pledge of claim against a third person, known by the lender to belong to the principal of that agent, forms a quasi-contract. 1893W. A. Keener Treat. Law of Quasi-Contracts i. 16 A statutory obligation which does not rest upon the consent of the parties, is clearly quasi-contractual in its nature. 1936R. M. Jackson Hist. Quasi-Contract in Eng. Law II. 127 The name ‘quasi-contract’ has become the general jurisprudential term for obligations which do not fall into the categories of contract or tort. 1959Jowitt Dict. Eng. Law II. 1456/2 Quasi-contract, liability, not exclusively referable to any other head of law, imposed upon a particular person to pay money to another particular person on the ground that non-payment of it would confer on the former an unjust benefit. Ibid., The main heads of quasi-contractual liability are: (1) money paid by the plaintiff at the request of the defendant, including payment by sureties and contribution between joint contractors; [etc.]. 1962A. Turner Law of Trade Secrets iv. iv. 348 We may consider relief under quasi-contract and relief for unjust enrichment to be for practical purposes the same. |
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