Mistake or misfortune of one person unfairly benefiting another.
Person or business that benefits from the work of another person or business. The recipient has not compensated the other party for this gain. In law, the one being enriched at the sacrifice or detriment of the other party must provide restitution.
Legal doctrine referring to the unjust enrichment of a person by way of taking advantage of another person's mistake, such as overpayment of an amount due. The doctrine prevents unjust enrichment and is based on a rule of fairness.
A situation in which one party is unjustly enriched at the expense of another party.
A legal procedure which seeks reimbursement from one who benefits from another's action or property without legal justification. This is based on the legal theory of the constructive trust, which the court imposes upon the circumstances to hold the person unjustly enriched as trustee, and the person who should properly get the property back as beneficiary of the constructive trust. A court may not force reimbursement based on "unjust enrichment" unless these three conditions are met: defendant receives an actual enrichment or benefit; a corresponding deprivation is suffered by the plaintiff; and the absence of a legal reason for the defendant's enrichment
FCC rules that require a transferee, assignee or lessee of a license or a lease to pay back financial benefits that were received by the original auction winner under the Commission's designated entity rules, but for which the transferee or assignee is not eligible. For example, if a small business licensee received a bidding credit or installment payments in an auction, and then seeks to assign the license to a non–small business, the assignee may be required to pay back the installment balance or the bidding credit amount to the Commission as a condition of the assignment.
Benefiting from the work of another, without giving compensation.
A legal doctrine stating that if a person receives money or other property through no effort of his own, at the expense of another, the recipient should return the property to the rightful owner, even if the property was not obtained illegally. Most courts will order that the property be returned if the party who has suffered the loss brings a lawsuit.
A legal procedure whereby you can seek reimbursement from another who benefitted from your action or property without legal justification. There are said to be three conditions which must be met before you can get a court to force reimbursement based on "unjust enrichment": an actual enrichment or benefit to the defendant, a corresponding deprivation to the plaintiff, and the absence of a legal reason for the defendant's enrichment. For example (and only theoretically as many countries have laws which have modified equity law in some situations), if you found somebody else's cash and spent it, you might be sued for reimbursement under unjust enrichment. The legal theory behind unjust enrichment is the constructive trust, which the court imposes upon the circumstances to hold the person unjustly enriched as the trustee for the person who should properly get the property back, held to be the beneficiary of the constructive trust.
Unjust enrichment is a legal term in English law and in several other jurisdictions, denoting a particular type of causative event in which one party is unjustly enriched at the expense of another, and an obligation to make restitution arises, regardless of liability for wrongdoing.