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Book Review: Chris Thomale's Leistung als Freiheit: Erfüllungsautonomie im Bereicherungsrecht

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Phillip Hellwege

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Chris Thomale's Leistung als Freiheit is the printed version of his Berlin doctoral thesis of 2011 (Freie Universität) which was supervised by Martin Schwab. The title of the book will most probably be meaningless or even be misleading to non-German readers: Leistung als Freiheit translates to “Performance as Freedom.” The subtitle will not be of any help to non-German readers, either: Erfüllungsautonomie im Bereicherungsrecht means “Autonomy of Performance in the Law of Unjustified Enrichment.” The subtitle points to the area of law to which the book is devoted—the law of unjustified enrichment—and within the law of unjustified enrichment, to those cases which are commonly—and not only in German law—labeled as enrichment by performance or enrichment by deliberate conferral. In German law, and also in other civil law systems, the different condictiones are joined together under this label.

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German Law Journal , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , 01 May 2014 , pp. 501 - 510
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Copyright © 2014 by German Law Journal GbR 

References

1 Chris Thomale, Leistung als Freiheit: Erföllungsautonomie im Bereicherungsrecht [Performance as Freedom: Autonomy of Performance in the Law of Unjustified Enrichment] Mohr Siebeck (Studien zum Privatrecht, vol. 23), 2012, ISBN: 978-3-16-151667-2, 467 pp., € 109, hardcover [hereinafter Thomale].Google Scholar

2 Medicus, Dieter, Allgemeiner Teil des BGB [General Part of the BGB] para. 175 (10th ed. 2010).Google Scholar

3 Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch [BGB] [Civil Code], Aug. 18, 1896, Reichsgesetzblatt [RGBl.] as amended, § 362, para. 1, translated at http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_bgb/index.html (last visisited 8 September 2013).Google Scholar

4 See Thomale, , supra note 1, at 1–3.Google Scholar

5 See Thomale, , supra note 1, at 5–58.Google Scholar

6 Id. at 59–162.Google Scholar

7 Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch [BGB] [Civil Code], Aug. 18, 1896, Reichsgesetzblatt [RGBl.] as amended, § 362, para. 1, translated at http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_bgb/index.html (last visited 8 September 2013).Google Scholar

8 Id. § 214.Google Scholar

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10 Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch [BGB] [Civil Code], Aug. 18, 1896, Reichsgesetzblatt [RGBl.] as amended, § 812, para. 1, sentence 1, translated at http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_bgb/index.html (last visited 8 September 2013).Google Scholar

11 Id. § 812, para. 1, sentence 2.Google Scholar

12 See Thomale, supra note 1, at 203–04.Google Scholar

13 Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch [BGB] [Civil Code], Aug. 18, 1896, Reichsgesetzblatt [RGBl.] as amended, § 362, para. 1, translated at http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_bgb/index.html (last visited 8 September 2013).Google Scholar

14 See Thomale, , supra note 1, at 204.Google Scholar

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