Q.What is a quasi-contract? Give two examples.

A quasi-contract is the law's way of stopping one person unfairly benefiting at another's expense, even though the two never actually agreed to anything. …

A quasi-contract is not a contract in the true sense at all — there is no offer, acceptance, or genuine agreement between the parties. Instead, the law itself imposes an obligation on a person, resembling a contractual duty, to prevent them from being unjustly enriched at another person's expense.

Examples:

1. A person who finds goods belonging to another and takes them into custody is subject to the same responsibility as a bailee — the finder must take reasonable care of the goods and is bound to return them to the true owner, and may not simply keep them.
2. If necessaries are supplied to a person incapable of contracting (e.g. a minor, or a person of unsound mind), or to someone whom the incapable person is legally bound to support, the supplier is entitled to be reimbursed a reasonable price from the incapable person's property, even though no valid contract was ever formed with them. …

Calling a quasi-contract a 'type of agreement between two parties' — there is no real agreement at all; the obligation is …