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49 This lower threshold of knowledge is sufficient to establish the “unjust” or “unjustified” nature of the recipient’s enrichment, thereby entitling the plaintiff to a restitutionary remedy. As I wrote in Lac Minerals, supra, at p. 670, “[t]he determination that the enrichment is ‘unjust’ does not refer to abstract notions of morality and justice, but flows directly from the finding that there was a breach of a legally recognized duty for which the courts will grant relief”. In “knowing receipt” cases, relief flows from the breach of a legally recognized duty of inquiry. More specifically, relief will be granted where a stranger to the trust, having received trust property for his or her own benefit and having knowledge of facts which would put a reasonable person on inquiry, actually fails to inquire as to the possible misapplication of trust property. It is this lack of inquiry that renders the recipient’s enrichment unjust.
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