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money had and received

noun

C2CEFR level
93/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

A historic restitutionary claim to recover money the defendant holds but in justice ought to return to the claimant.

We framed the recovery of the misdirected funds as an action for money had and received.

Similar: restitutionary count

Topic: Tort in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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