Medical intervention and incapax patients : the place of negotiorum gestio within Law's "fundamental structural language"

Brown, Jonathan (2022) Medical intervention and incapax patients : the place of negotiorum gestio within Law's "fundamental structural language". Edinburgh Law Review, 26 (3). pp. 422-427. ISSN 1364-9809 (https://doi.org/10.3366/elr.2022.0789)

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Abstract

Discusses the potential utility of 'negotiorum gestio' in the Scots law of obligations, arguing that the concept ought to be extended to cover the non-patrimonial aspects of a person's existence, and that such would contribute to the development of Scots medical jurisprudence.