English Private Law

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5 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is English Private Law.

• Certainty in English law — The doctrinal requirement that voluntary obligations be sufficiently definite for an English court to identify and enforce their legal content.
• English unjust enrichment law — Classify a defendant's receipt as actionable unjust enrichment in English law through enrichment, claimant-relative expense, a recognized unjust factor, and absence of a defense, with restitution as the prima facie response.
• Estoppel in English law — A family of English-law doctrines that can prevent a party from asserting a right or factual position inconsistent with a legally significant earlier representation, assumption or conduct.
• Unconscionability in English law — A narrow equitable basis for withholding enforcement where one party knowingly exploits another's serious disadvantage in procuring a transaction, alongside but distinct from duress and undue influence.
• Undue influence in English law — An equitable doctrine allowing a transaction to be set aside when improper relational influence prevents it from being treated as the free and informed exercise of a party's will.