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Unjust enrichment

General legal principle obliging anyone who is enriched at another's expense without legal cause to restore the benefit obtained. No fault required. Its elements: enrichment of the defendant, correlative impoverishment of the claimant, causal link and absence of legal cause. Source of obligations alongside contract and tort, subsidiary in nature.

Arts. 1887-1901 CC (cuasi-contratos)
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