The same thing applies to loan transactions and other simple contracts or
quasi-contracts, all of which can only be enforced within six years of the accrual of the cause of action, that is the period when the breach occurred or when your right matures.
Part II treats specific contracts and covers agency; bailment; aleatory contracts; sale of goods; hire of work & skills, building contracts; lease, commercial and agricultural leases; compromise settlement; suretyship; pledge; loans; contracts with the government and other public administrations; contract of partnership; and
quasi-contracts. ([umlaut] Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)
as well as academics and researchers, the author defines and classifies contracts and the differences between contracts and other legal instruments such as torts and
quasi-contracts. Topics include, but are not limited to: formal and evidentiary requirements, defects of consent, contract contents, termination, and remedies such as damages.
So if the law of
quasi-contracts deals with contract-like situations that aren't strictly contractual, and the law of quasi-torts with tort-like scenarios that aren't purely delictual, does a more prominent category of situations exist where the law creates property-like entitlements, but recognizes them to be something other than truly proprietary in character?
KEENER, A TREATISE ON THE LAW OF
QUASI-CONTRACTS (1893); FREDERIC CAMPBELL WOODWARD, THE LAW OF
QUASI-CONTRACTS (1913).
The seminal work was Dean William Keener's 1893 masterpiece, A Treatise on the Law of
Quasi-Contracts, (5) in which the author clinically analysed the deficiencies in the concept of a 'contract implied in law' and advanced in its place a doctrine based upon unjust enrichment.
This brings up the question of how new labour movements attempt to deal with work-related health problems in an era of
quasi-contracts and benefit slashing.
The rest of the book covers offers and deals, consideration, reasons for not enforcing agreements, terms of the deal, and alternatives to contracts, such as
quasi-contracts and restitution.