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Practice question: Negotiorum Gestio

Multiple Choice Hard Jurisprudence

Practice question

A person undertakes qualifying officious management, then launches risky operations the owner was not accustomed to undertake. A fortuitous event causes loss in those operations. The manager asserts that every volunteer is invariably exempt from fortuitous-event liability. Which is correct?
  1. Article 2147 specifically imposes fortuitous-event liability for the stated risky-operation circumstance
  2. No officious manager can ever bear fortuitous risk
  3. A risky operation automatically becomes authorized agency
  4. The owner must always indemnify the manager without conditions
  5. Only a written promise can create any responsibility

Legal references

  • Civil Code, Article 2147(1): https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/2/53360

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