§ 34-01-03 — Voluntary service without employment - Duties of person rendering - Rights to compensation and expenses

to compensation and expenses.
One who officiously and without the consent of the real or apparent owner of a thing takes it
into possession for the purpose of rendering a service about it must complete such service and
use ordinary care, diligence, and reasonable skill about the same. The person is not entitled to
any compensation for the person's service or expenses, except that the person may deduct
actual and necessary expenses incurred by the person about such service from any profits
which the person's service has caused the thing to acquire for its owner and must account to
the owner for the residue.