Gestation

See "Period of Gestation." GESTIO (Lat.) In civil law. The doing or management of a thing. Negotiorum gestio, the doing voluntarily without authority business of another. De neg. gest. Gester negotiorum, one who so interferes with business of another without authority. Gestio pro haerede, behavior as heir; such conduct on the part of the heir as indicates acceptance of the inheritance, and makes him liable for ancestor's debts universally, e. g., an entry upon, or assigning, or letting any of the heritable property, releasing any of the debtors of the estate, or meddling with the title deeds or heirship movables, etc.

Ersk. Inst. 3. 8. 82 et seq.; Stair, Inst. 3. 6. 1.