Restitution und Bereicherungsausgleich in Europa

Peter Schlechtriem informs about and analyzes the rules on restitution and unjust enrichment in the European countries. In doing so, he deals with cases of transfer of assets sine causae by mistake, analyzes the various rules governing the restitution in the case of failed contracts and deals with claims for the return of gifts. He devotes a chapter to the compensation of expenses incurred in repairing, maintaining or improving someone elses's property and another chapter to enrichment gained by wrongful interference with another one's rights. Schlechtriem concludes this work with an analysis of different situations in which in addition to the persons directly involved in the transfer of assets it must be clarified if and under what conditions third or fourth parties have to surrender the respective enrichment.