Impoverishee
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 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 another action, which is explained by the subsidiary character of the action de in rem verso."
Example
More examples"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 another action, which is explained by the subsidiary character of the action de in rem verso."
Etymology
From impoverish + -ee.
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