[IDEM libro quarto opinionum. ] §3.5.44.prQuae utiliter in negotia alicuius erogantur, in quibus est etiam sumptus honeste ad honores per gradus pertinentes factus, actione negotiorum gestorum peti possunt.
[THE SAME, Opinions, Book IV] What is usefully expended on another's affairs, in which is also included an expense respectably incurred for offices pertaining to successive steps, can be recovered by the action for business managed.
§3.5.44.1Qui pure testamento libertatem acceperunt, actus, quem uiuentibus dominis administrauerunt, rationem reddere non conpelluntur.
Those who have received freedom unconditionally by a will are not compelled to render an account of the administration which they conducted while their masters were alive.
§3.5.44.2Titius pecuniam creditoribus hereditariis soluit existimans sororem suam defuncto heredem testamento extitisse.
Titius paid money to the creditors of an estate, believing that his sister had become heir to the deceased by a will.
quamuis animo gerendi sororis negotia id fecisset, ueritate tamen filiorum defuncti, qui sui heredes patri sublato testamento erant, gessisset: quia aequum est in damno eum non uersari, actione negotiorum gestorum id eum petere placuit.
Although he did this with the intention of managing his sister's affairs, yet in reality he had managed those of the children of the deceased, who, the will being set aside, were the self-successors to their father; since it is equitable that he should not suffer loss, it was held that he could recover this by the action for business managed.