Details |
A quasi contract created by law for reasons of justice without any
expression of assent. A quasi-contract is the act of a person, permitted by
law, by which he obligates himself towards another, or by which another
binds himself to him, without any agreement between them.
A quasi contract is not contract at all. The commonest sample of the class
is the relation subsisting between two persons one of whom has paid money
to the other through mistake. The word quasi prefixed to a term in Roman
law, implies that the conception to which it serves as an index is
connected with the conception with which the comparison is instituted by a
strong superficial analogy or resemblance. ….. [Maine’s Ancient Law,
1936 ed., p. 354]
|