Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

Section II   Voluntary deposit

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    1699.   Voluntary deposit is that which is made by the mutual consent of the party making and of the party receiving it.

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    1700.   Voluntary deposit can take place only between persons capable of contracting.

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    Nevertheless if a person capable of contracting accept a deposit made by a person incapable, he or she is liable to all the obligations of a depositary; which obligations may be enforced against him or her by the tutor or other administrator of the incapable person.

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    1701.   If the deposit have been made with a person incapable of contracting, the party making it has a right to obtain restoration, so long as it remains in the hands of the depositary, and afterwards a right to demand the value of the thing in so far as it has been profitable to the depositary.