unjust enrichment

Such claim under the doctrine of unjust enrichment is assimilated to an obligation of contract; and does not, in the absence of an identifiable res and a constructive trust based on special circumstances of misconduct, confer a preference over other creditors

A phrase much in the unlawful conduct. Magistrates and used by Prof. James Barr Ames to designate the police may use whatever force is necesa principle which lies at the foundation of sary to disperse an unlawful assembly. The the great bulk of quasi-contracts — that one degree of force to be exercised will depend shall not unjustly enrich himself at the ex- on the circumstances of each case; 9 C. & P. pense of another. An instance is to be found 431. in the early law in the action of account. See Riot; Rout; Public Meeting; Se- One who received money from another to be dition. applied in a particular way was bound to UNLAWFUL IMPRISONMENT. Unlawful give account of his stewardship. If he ful- deprival of an alien’s right to enter the counfilled hie commission, that was a valid dis- try constitutes unlawful imprisonment, to obcharge. If he failed to do so, the plaintiff tain freedom from which habeas corpus lies; would have a judgment for its recovery. See U. S. v. Williams, 193 Fed. 228. See Troops, Ames, Lectures on Leg. Hist. 162. Foreign; Habeas Corpus.