The vice of such laws would then not be the maldistribution,
but the refusal to all alike, of compensation for injuries which
it was morally wrong to inflict on others. The crudest case
of such unjust refusal of redress would be a system in which
no one could obtain damages for physical harm wantonly
inflicted. It is worth observing that this injustice would still
remain even ifthe criminal law prohibited such assaults under
penalty. Few instances of anything so crude can be found,
but the failure of English law to provide compensation for
invasions of privacy, often found profitable by advertisers,
has often been criticized in this way. Failure to provide compensation
where morally it is held due is, however, also the
gravamen of the charge of injustice against technicalities of
the law of tort or contract which permit 'unjust enrichment'
at the expense of another by some action considered morally
wrong.