2 Indirect/Quasi Contract

1. Concept: obligations not from agreement but from law — the law's intervention to prevent injustice: the payment-by-mistake's recovery, the necessaries-supplied-to-minor's reimbursement, the finder's duties, the unauthorized manager's claims (the negotiorum gestio of the civil law). "Quasi" because contract-shaped (a duty to pay/restain) without the contract's consent-base; 2. Doctrine of unjust enrichment: the master principle — no one shall be enriched at another's expense without legal justification: the elements (an enrichment; at the plaintiff's expense; unjust — no juristic base; the restitutionary remedy: the gain returned, not the loss compensated — the damages/restitution distinction); 3. Nepalese provisions: the Code Part V's unjust-enrichment-and-restitution articles (the payment-not-owed's return; the benefit's disgorge rules); the quantum meruit remedy's foundation (Unit 8: the work's value recovered where the contract fails-but-the-benefit- remains); the courts' restitutionary practice (the builder's-and-supplier's recovery line — the enrichment-counted cases).