FACTS

Perez filed in the Court of First Instance of Laguna a complaint asking the Court to determine the amount due him
for services rendered as an interpreter for Pomar and for judgement to be rendered in his favor.

Pomar, on his part, denied having sought the services of Perez, contending that, Perez being his friend, he only
accepted the services for they were rendered in a spontaneous, voluntary and officious manner.

ISSUE

Whether or not consent has been given by the other party.

HELD

Yes. It does not appear that any written contract was entered into between the parties for the employment of the
plaintiff as interpreter, or that any other innominate contract was entered into, but whether the plaintiff’s services
were solicited or whether they were offered to the defendant for his assistance, inasmuch as these services were
accepted and made use of by the latter, there was a tacit and mutual consent as to the rendition of services. This
gives rise to the delegation upon the person benefited by the services to make compensation thereof, since the
bilateral obligation to render services as interpreter, on the one hand, and on the other to pay for the services
rendered is thereby incurred.

As was held in the Supreme Court of Spain in its decision of February 12, 1889, it stated that “ not only is there an
express and tacit consent which produces real contract but there is also a presumptive consent which is the basis of
quasi-contracts this giving rise to the multiple judicial relations which result in obligations for the delivery of a thing
or the rendition of a service