contract implied in law
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 267 U.S. 338 - Merritt v. United States · 1925Most cited · 646 citing opinions
The Tucker Act does not give a right of action against the United States in those cases where, if the transaction were between private parties, recovery could be had upon a contract implied in law.
How often courts cite the cases defining “contract implied in law”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “contract implied in law” — 856 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1925–1926
one based merely on equitable considerations and implied in law, as distinguished from a contract implied in fact; a contract implied in law does not give the Court of Claims or a district court under the Tucker Act jurisdiction to give judgment against the government