[2] Broadly speaking, the law of restitution concerns actions in which one person claims an entitlement in respect of a gain acquired by another, rather than compensation for a loss.
Many academic commentators have sought to impose structure upon the law of restitution by searching for a common rationale and constructing taxonomies of the various types of claim.
In short, a claimant will have a prima facie action where: The historical core of restitutionary claims to reverse unjust enrichment lies in the law of quasi-contract.
[10] With this abstraction has come attempts - with varying degrees of success and controversy - to expand the explanatory power of the principle of unjust enrichment.
[11] Examples of the types of claim now falling within the modern English law of unjust enrichment include: Restitution for wrongs refers to a remedy where a gain can be taken away (or 'stripped', 'disgorged', etc.)