CRCJ 3003 Lecture 7: 2202 mar 2

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 3003
• Professor: Nicholas Lamb

Document Summary

Contract is about obligations that are signed on to or negotiated. A payment that would result in injustice if kept. Principles: benefit to party who gained money, detriment to the party who gave money, no legal reason to keep money. He"s transferred them to macpherlan on the promise that macpherlan will not try and seek this money from moses. Macpherlan changes his mind and tries to seek money from moses. Court must decide if he can get compensated from notes of debt that have been signed over to him. Moses returns to court and says this was a case of unjust enrichment. Court finds that macpherlan benefitted at the expense of moses and there is no legal reason for it. Appeal says statute of frauds sets aside contract. But still sets aside 3k to nephew for reasons of unjust enrichment. Essentially a contract for the house in exchange for services.