negotiorum gestio

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role in Roman law

  • Augustus from Prima Porta
    In Roman law: Delict and contract

    …most noticeable examples were, first, negotiorum gestio, which enabled one who intervened without authority in another’s affairs for the latter’s benefit to claim reimbursement and indemnity, and second, the group of cases in which an action (condictio) was allowed for the recovery by A from B of what would otherwise…

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