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This page covers official instruments, divided between legislation, jury directions and pleading, and quasi-legislation.

Legislation

	Confiscation Act 1997 (Victoria)

	Confiscation of Proceeds of Crime Act 1989 (New South Wales)

	Contracts Act 1872 (Pakistan) Chapter II - Contracts, voidable contracts and void agreements Chapter V - Certain relations resembling those created by contract

	Crimes (Forfeiture of Proceeds) Act (Australian Northern Territory) (Consolidated Acts 1996)

	Criminal Assets Bureau Act 1996 (Ireland)

	Criminal Assets Confiscation Act 1996 (South Australia)

	Finance Act 1997 s 46 - Repayments of overpayments (United Kingdom)

	Forfeiture Act 1991 (Australian Capital Territory)

	Forfeiture Act 1995 (New South Wales)

	Frustrated Contracts Act 1974 (Uniform Law Conference of Canada)

	Frustrated Contracts Act 1978 (New South Wales)

	Frustrated Contracts Act 1988 (South Australia)

	Frustrated Contracts Act (New Brunswick Consolidated Statutes)

	Frustrated Contracts Act (Revised Statutes 1996) (British Columbia)

	Frustrated Contracts Act (Alberta)

	Frustrated Contracts Act (Saskatchewan)

	Frustrated Contracts Act (Singapore)

	Frustrated Contracts Act (Revised Statutes 2002) (Yukon)

	Infants Act - Part 3 - Infants' Contracts (Revised Statutes 1996) (British Columbia)

	Law applicable to non-contractual obligations (Rome II) (Regulation 864/2007 of 11 July 2007)

	Law Reform (Frustrated Contracts) Act 1943 (England and Wales)

	Parteiengesetz (Political Parties Act) (as amended 1994) (Germany) (on political donations)

	Proceeds of Crime Act 1991 (Australian Capital Territory) (and see Proceeds of Crime (Consequential Amendments) Act 1991)

	Proceeds of Crime Act 1996 (Ireland)

	Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (United Kingdom)

	Restitution of Land Rights Act 1994 (South Africa)

	Tortfeasors Act (New Brunswick Consolidated Statutes 1990)

	Unconscionable Transactions Relief Act (New Brunswick Consolidated Statutes 1990)

	Wreck and Salvage Act 1996 (South Africa)


Jury directions, pleadings and procedure

	Contract - Express or Implied (North Dakota)

	Express or implied contacts (California)

	Money had and received (California)

	Money had and received (Hawai'i) (also here)

	Money had and received (Kentucky)

	Money had and received (also here) (North Dakota)

	Money paid by mistake (Hawai'i)

	Quasi contract (Oklahoma Uniform Jury Instructions)

	Reasonable value of services (quantum meruit) (California)

	Writ of restitution (Pierce County, Washington)


Quasi-Legislation
Some documents, while not "legislation" in any sense of the word, nonetheless have a similar effect because of the wide respect accorded to them internationally. Some prominent examples in the area of Restitution are :

Frustrated Contracts Act (Uniform Law Conference of Canada)

London Salvage Convention 1989 (also here)

Restatement of Restitution (3rd) is now in preparation: see ALI Director's report, April 2000; see also list of participants (and here))

York-Antwerp Rules 1994 on General Average Contribution

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