Just out from Cambridge University Press:
Elise Bant, Matthew Harding (eds): Exploring Private Law (£65)
5 of the 20 chapters are on U.E. (Burrows, Australian restitution; Scott & Visser, impact of legal culture; McInnes, natural obligations; Haecker, causality & abstraction; Chambers, trust & theft). Another 6 relate to equity and trusts. The others are split between legal remedies and legal method. Altogether a fascinating and wide-ranging collection, and surely a must for any library.
Incidentally, Lord Mansfield and Moses v Macferlan loom large in the natural obligations discussion. One of the main Scots cases of that era, Carrick v Carse, related to this very topic (in the context of lapse of a guarantee by prescription); it clearly recognised the recovery of payments made in error of law. I don't recall if Mansfield was referred to, but the chapter will lead me to reconsider the case again.
Ross Macdonald (Dundee)
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