Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2000
Editor(s)
Ejan Mackaay
Publisher
Themis Publishing
Language
en-US
Abstract
One of the supposed certainties of the common law is that persons need not pay for benefits they receive except when they have agreed in advance to make payment. The rule takes many forms. One of the most familiar is the doctrine that absent a contractual obligation, a person benefited by a volunteer ordinarily need not pay for what he has received. This rule supposedly both encourages economic efficiency and respects autonomy.
Recommended Citation
Wendy J. Gordon,
Copyright and Parody: Touring the Certainties of Property and Restitution
,
in
Les Certitudes Du Droit (Certainty and the Law)
57
(Ejan Mackaay ed.,
2000).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/1929
