Understanding the Unjust Enrichment Principle in Private Law: A Study of the Concept and its Reasons

Understanding Unjust Enrichment

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 79-110

  Barker, Kit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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