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Disgorgement is an equitable remedy designed to deter future violations of the securities laws and to deprive defendants of the proceeds of their wrongful conduct. Indeed, in the exercise of its equity powers, the district court may order disgorgement of profits acquired through securities fraud .
In Canada, quantum meruit is not based on contract law but rather depends on equitable principles of unjust enrichment. Canadian law generally upholds the old maxim that estoppel allows an implied promise to act as a shield against litigation but never a sword. Therefore an implied promise would not create a cause of action.
The reception of unjust enrichment into Belgian law has been upheld multiple times by the Court of Cassation, which has ruled that unjust enrichment is a general principle of law. [27] [28] [29] The Court has stated that the legal basis for unjust enrichment is equity (ius aequum). According to the Court, five elements constitute unjust enrichment:
The law now recognises that the implication of a request by Partridge and a promise to pay Exall for the benefit (namely, the discharge of the liability) is fictitious. The case illustrates that one's discharge of a liability of another can constitute an 'enrichment' for the purposes of the law of unjust enrichment.
equitable compensation; appointment or removal of fiduciary; interpleader; equitable tracing as a remedy for unjust enrichment; The two main equitable remedies are injunctions and specific performance, and in casual legal parlance references to equitable remedies are often expressed as referring to those two remedies alone. Injunctions may be ...
The Official Code of Georgia Annotated or OCGA is the compendium of all laws in the state of Georgia. Like other state codes in the United States, its legal interpretation is subject to the U.S. Constitution , the U.S. Code , the Code of Federal Regulations , and the state's constitution .
Oct. 21—WILKES-BARRE — Attorney General Michelle Henry has joined a coalition of 19 state Attorneys General defending the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Discriminatory ...
Unjust enrichment is a legal cause of action, and one of the pillars of obligations alongside consents (e.g. contracts, trusts) and wrongs (e.g. torts, breach of equitable duties). The main article for this category is Unjust enrichment .