Welcome to the webpage for restitution civil liability for unjust enrichment restitution is the legal theory that allows one party to recover unjust enrichment from another to recover ill gotten gains for example rather than to recoup ones own losses it is a fascinating body of law and highly useful to the practitioner restitution has also until now never been the subject of a one volume treatment that explains how it works. And in all of them the law of restitution provides a way to undo the enrichment and transfer the defendants gains to a party with better rights to them tort law focuses on the harm or costs that one party wrongfully imposes on another restitution is the mirror image it corrects gains that one party wrongfully receives at anothers expense it is an important topic for every lawyer and for anyone else interested in how the legal system responds to injustice. Farnsworth w restitution civil liability for unjust enri civil liability for unjust enrichment amazonde farnsworth ward fremdsprachige bucher. Restitution is the body of law concerned with taking away gains that someone has wrongfully obtained the operator of a ponzi scheme takes money from his victims by fraud and then invests it in stocks that rise in value or a company pays a shareholder excessive dividends or pays them to the wrong person or a man poisons his grandfather and then collects under the grandfathers will