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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 709 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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QUANTUM MERUIT (

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Lat. for " as much as he has de-served ")  , in the
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law of
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contract, originally a
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form of
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action on the
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case, grounded on a promise to pay the
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plaintiff for
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work done as much as it was
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worth . It has been abolished as a
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special form of action, but the
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term is still in use where, in cases of special contract, there has been a
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breach amounting to a
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discharge by one party before the other party has done all that he was
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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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