Malaysia legislation
Section 69
Section 69
If a person, incapable of entering into a contract, or anyone whom he is legally bound to support, is supplied by another person with necessaries suited to his condition in life, the person who has furnished such supplies is entitled to be reimbursed from the property of such incapable person.
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(a)
A supplies B, a mentally disordered person, with necessaries suitable to his condition in life. A is entitled to be reimbursed from B’s property.
(b)
A supplies the wife and children of B, a mentally disordered person, with necessaries suitable to their condition in life. A is entitled to be reimbursed from B’s property.
Reimbursement of person paying money due by another, in payment of which he is interested 70.
A person who is interested in the payment of money which another is bound by law to pay, and who therefore pays it, is entitled to be reimbursed by the other.
A, the owner of a holding situated within a Town Board area, allows the assessment due thereon to fall into arrear. The Chairman of the Town Board seizes movable property found on the holding with a view to its sale by public auction under the Town Boards Enactment [F. M. S. Cap. 137]. B having an interest in the movable property pays the arrear. A is bound to make good to B the amount so paid.
Obligation of person enjoying benefit of non-gratuitous act