impoverishee
impoverishee noun: one who has been impoverished by unjust enrichment.
Noun
impoverishee (plural impoverishees)
- One who has been impoverished by unjust enrichment.
- There are today five conditions for enrichment without cause as a source of obligation: (1) correlative impoverishment and enrichment, (2) absence of fault on the part of the impoverishee, (3) absence of a personal interest on the part of the impoverishee, (4) absence of cause, (5) absence of...1982, Katherine Shaw Spaht, “Matrimonial Regimes”, in Louisiana Law Review, volume 43, number 2, page 517
- The court construed the "absence of justification" requirement as mandating the lack of a valid juridical act, either between the impoverishee and the enrichee or between the enrichee and a third party, which justified the enrichment.1975, Stewart McCaa Thomas, “Conditions for the Application of Actio De In Rem Verso”, in Louisiana Law Review, volume 36, number 1, page 315
Forms of impoverishee
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Origin of impoverishee
From impoverish + -ee.
Questions about impoverishee
- What does impoverishee mean?
- Impoverishee means one who has been impoverished by unjust enrichment.
- What part of speech is impoverishee?
- Impoverishee is a noun.
- What is the plural of impoverishee?
- The plural of impoverishee is impoverishees.
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