Page 503 - Important Provisions of The New Civil Code

NEGOTIORUM GESTIO

Article 2144. Whoever voluntarily takes charge

of the agency or management of the business

or property of another, without any power from

the latter, is obliged to continue the same until

the termination of the affair and its incidents, or

to require the person concerned to substitute

him, if the owner is in a position to do so. This

juridical relation does not arise in either of these

instances:

(1) When the property or business is not

neglected or abandoned;

(2) If in fact the manager has been tacitly

authorized by the owner.