| Obligations, Property, Legal Theory | Saturday, 12 October 2024 - 10:04 |
Abstract
Other things being equal, the recipient of a mistaken payment must pay the money back. I argue that no one has given a good explanation of this rule; in particular, I argue that justifications have failed to explain why the payee is the appropriate person to fix the payor’s problem.
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Frederick Wilmot-Smith, Should the Payee Pay?, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Volume 37, Issue 4, 1 December 2017, pages 844–861, https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqx014.
First posted 2017-12-04 07:10:19
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