PVL3704 UNJUSTIFIED ENRICHMENT LIABILITY
AND ESTOPPEL - CONDICTIO INDEBITI
Requirement for the condictio indebiti (3) (Roman Law) - Answers-datio of money or things;
error; and
unduey payment
.Datio (Roman Law) - Answers-dationis. noun. Definitions: donation/gift. giving/assigning/allotting/handing
over (act), transfer.
.solvendi animo per errorem (Roman Law) - Answers-in the mistaken belief that the debt was due.
.Quantum of claim (Roman Law) - Answers-The received had to restore the thing plus fixtures plus fruits (less
production expenses)
The receiver entitled to compensation for his or her necessary expenses and useful expenses.
Interest drawn on the money paid for, and the value of, a service cannot be recovered with this condictio.
.Requirements in Roman Dutch Law - Answers-Essentially the same as that which feature in Roman Law.
View that a payment based on an error of law could not be recovered remained in place.
Plaintiff could be denied the condictio only on considerations of equity
.Obiligation to return in Roman Dutch Law - Answers-Obligation of receiver to restore the thing:-
Obligation to return the thing received
If no longer in his or her possession then the value thereof to be returned.
, .Defence can be raised - Answers-He / She has lost or alienated the thing
or that the loss after he/she became aware of his / her obligation was not his or her fault.
Has to restore as much of the value of the thing as still remained in his / her estate.
.Condictio indebiti in SA Law - Answers-1. Remedy based on unjustified enrichment.
2. Person reclaims performance rendered under an excusable mistake that was not owing i.t.o. the remedy.
3. Unowed performance may in certain circumstances be reclaimed from a party other than the actual
recipient thereof.
4. Reclamataion depends on who the law regards as being the actual recipient of the value transferred.
.Party to satisfy the following requirements: - Answers-a) He or she must have given or transferred something
in ownership to another. (Transfer of copyright or a trademark, or even a claim, can be reclaimed with the
condictio indebiti)
b)Transfer must have taken place as the result of a mistake having been made on the part of the transferor,
c) the mistake, whether in law or in fact, must have been reasonable mistake under the circumstances.
.Payment - Answers-Impoverished party must prove that it has made a payment in the broad sense described
above to the enriched party. This includes :
Transfer of ownership in a thing
payment of money
performance of work and services
transfer of possession
transfer of such immaterial property as rights.
.not owed - Answers-The impoverished party must prove that the payment was not owed. No debt was owing
to the enriched party.
AND ESTOPPEL - CONDICTIO INDEBITI
Requirement for the condictio indebiti (3) (Roman Law) - Answers-datio of money or things;
error; and
unduey payment
.Datio (Roman Law) - Answers-dationis. noun. Definitions: donation/gift. giving/assigning/allotting/handing
over (act), transfer.
.solvendi animo per errorem (Roman Law) - Answers-in the mistaken belief that the debt was due.
.Quantum of claim (Roman Law) - Answers-The received had to restore the thing plus fixtures plus fruits (less
production expenses)
The receiver entitled to compensation for his or her necessary expenses and useful expenses.
Interest drawn on the money paid for, and the value of, a service cannot be recovered with this condictio.
.Requirements in Roman Dutch Law - Answers-Essentially the same as that which feature in Roman Law.
View that a payment based on an error of law could not be recovered remained in place.
Plaintiff could be denied the condictio only on considerations of equity
.Obiligation to return in Roman Dutch Law - Answers-Obligation of receiver to restore the thing:-
Obligation to return the thing received
If no longer in his or her possession then the value thereof to be returned.
, .Defence can be raised - Answers-He / She has lost or alienated the thing
or that the loss after he/she became aware of his / her obligation was not his or her fault.
Has to restore as much of the value of the thing as still remained in his / her estate.
.Condictio indebiti in SA Law - Answers-1. Remedy based on unjustified enrichment.
2. Person reclaims performance rendered under an excusable mistake that was not owing i.t.o. the remedy.
3. Unowed performance may in certain circumstances be reclaimed from a party other than the actual
recipient thereof.
4. Reclamataion depends on who the law regards as being the actual recipient of the value transferred.
.Party to satisfy the following requirements: - Answers-a) He or she must have given or transferred something
in ownership to another. (Transfer of copyright or a trademark, or even a claim, can be reclaimed with the
condictio indebiti)
b)Transfer must have taken place as the result of a mistake having been made on the part of the transferor,
c) the mistake, whether in law or in fact, must have been reasonable mistake under the circumstances.
.Payment - Answers-Impoverished party must prove that it has made a payment in the broad sense described
above to the enriched party. This includes :
Transfer of ownership in a thing
payment of money
performance of work and services
transfer of possession
transfer of such immaterial property as rights.
.not owed - Answers-The impoverished party must prove that the payment was not owed. No debt was owing
to the enriched party.
