What is 'nonfeasance'?
Theoretical justifications for distinguishing between feasance and nonfeasance
Liability for nonfeasance in continental European private law
Liability for nonfeasance in English private law
Towards a more consistent approach
The different measures of recovery and their terminology
Theoretical arguments against granting a remedy to the intervener
Theoretical arguments in favour of granting a remedy to the intervener
The continental doctrine of 'negotiorum gestio'
The position in English law
Towards a general principle : using the existing doctrines?
Towards a new general principle.