Chapter Summary

Quasi-contractual liability is an umbrella term for various situations in which the law holds a person liable without there being a contract between the parties, but where the situation is in some sense analogous to a contractual one.

Further Reading

J.3.27

D.3.5; 12.4-7

C.2.18; 4.5-9

P Birks, The Roman Law of Obligations (E Descheemaeker ed, Oxford University Press 2014) chapter 11

R Evans-Jones, ‘From “Undue Transfer” to “Retention without a Legal Basis” (The Condictio Indebiti and Condictio ob Turpem vel Iniustam Causam) in R Evans- Jones ed, The Civil Law Tradition in Scotland (Stair Society 1995)

G D MacCormack, ‘The Condictio Causa Data Causa Non Secuta’’ in R Evans-Jones ed, The Civil Law Tradition in Scotland (Stair Society 1995)

E Metzger ed, A Companion to Justinian’s Institutes (Duckworth 1998) 169-71

R Zimmermann, The Law of Obligations: Roman Foundations of the Civilian Tradition (Oxford University Press 1996) chapters 14 and 26