Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

implied-in-fact contract

A contract that the parties presumably intended, either by tacit understanding or by the assumption that it existed. - Also termed contract implied in fact."[A]dventurous courts have turned to the idea of a 'contract implied in law,' a 'quasi-contract' - not really a contract, a legal fiction necessary to promote the ends of justice and, in particular, to prevent 'unjust enrichment.'" Grant Gilmore, The Death of Contract 73-74 (1974).