Quasi Contract

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What is Quasi Contract?

A legal fiction created in the common law to allow for a recovery for contract when in fact there was no contract, but circumstances are such that justice requires a recovery as though there had been a promise. This concept is closely related to the doctrine of unjust enrichment.

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