Practice question
A volunteer deliberately performs a service purely as a gift with no expectation of reimbursement. The recipient accepts the intended gratuitous benefit. The volunteer later argues that every benefit at another’s expense is necessarily unjust and automatically creates a debt. Which analysis is sound?
- Every gratuitous act necessarily creates a payable debt
- No unilateral act can ever create a duty
- The legal basis and gratuitous intention must be examined; benefit alone does not establish unjust enrichment or every quasi-contract requirement
- All accepted gifts are crimes
- The recipient automatically owes any price later selected
Legal references
- Civil Code, Articles 2142-2143: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/2/53360
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