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Dimensions of Private Law - Categories and Concepts in Anglo-American Legal Reasoning by Stephen Waddams Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, xxiii + 233 + (works cited and index) 14 pp (£55.00 hardback, £19.95 paperback). ISBN 0 521 81643 2 hardback, 0 521 01669 X paperback.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Gerard McMeel
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Legal Studies , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , December 2004 , pp. 647 - 653
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Copyright © Society of Legal Scholars 2004

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References

1. Her Majesty’s Theatre, Haymarket, managed by Benjamin Lumley, and the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden, run by Frederick Gye.

2. Lumley v Wagner (1852) 1 De G M & G 604, 19 LT 265 (injunction proceedings in Chancery); Lumley v Gye (1852) 2 E1 & B1 250 (demurrer in Queen's Bench).

3. Omychund v Barker (1744) 1 Atk 21 at 33–34 (arguendo; William Murray of counsel, as he then was: emphasis in original). See Waddams at pp 20 and 192.

4. White v Jones [1995] 2 AC 207.

5. P 73: whilst acknowledging that his Toronto colleague Professor Weinrib is not guilty of this neglect.

6. [2001] AC 268.

7. R Sharpe and S Waddams ‘Damages for Lost Opportunity to Bargain’ (1982) 2 OJLS 107; and see Waddams, pp 108–109.

8. Experience Hendrix LLC v PPX Enterprises Inc [2003] EWCA Civ 323 may be an example.

9. P Birks ‘Unjust Enrichment and Wrongful Enrichment’ (2001) Texas LR 1769 at 1781, 1794, quoted by Waddams at p 110.

10. P Birks An Introduction to the Law of Restitution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985).

11. See, for example, R Dworkin Law's Empire (London: Fontana, 1986).

12. Unjust Enrichment - A Comparative Analysis (Boston: Little, Brown, 1951) pp 39–40.

13. McDonald v Coys of Kensington (Sales) Ltd [2004] EWCA Civ 47.

14. P 194, citing E Weinrib The Idea of Private Law (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1995).

15. A Burrows Understanding the Law of Obligations - Essays on Contract, Tort and Restitution (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 1998) especially at p 119.

16. [2002] 1 AC 215 at 224, per Lord Steyn, quoted by Waddams at p 203.

17. [2002] 3 WLR 89.