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Definition :

Promutuum, a quasi-contract, by which he who receives a certain sum of money, or a certain quantity of fungible things, delivered to him through mistake contracts the obligation of restoring as much.

It resembles the contract of mutuum: (1) That in both a sum of money or some fungible things are required. (2) That in both there must be a transfer of the property in the thing. (3) That in both there must be returned the same amount or quantity of the thing received, Civ. Law.