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Quantum Meruit

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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QUANTUM MERUIT (Lat. for "as much as he has deserved"), in the law of contract, originally a form of action on the case, grounded on a promise to pay the plaintiff for work done as much as it was worth. It has been abolished as a special form of action, but the term is still in use where, in cases of special contract, there has been a breach amounting to a discharge by one party before the other party has done all that he was bound to do. In such a case the plaintiff sues for a quantum meruit or the value of so much as he has done.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Quantum Meruit'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​q/quantum-meruit.html. 1910.
 
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