Unjust Enrichment - United States

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The Restatement (Third) of Restitution and Unjust Enrichment states that:

Unjust enrichment is enrichment that lacks an adequate legal basis: it results from a transfer that the law treats as ineffective to work a conclusive alteration in ownership rights."

The North Dakota Supreme Court has ruled that five elements must be established to prove unjust enrichment:

  1. An enrichment
  2. An impoverishment
  3. A connection between enrichment and the impoverishment
  4. Absence of a justification for the enrichment and impoverishment
  5. An absence of a remedy provided by the law

In Massachusetts, there are some decisions denying recovery in restitution by the breaching party although this is not generally the rule in the United States.

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