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A owns a private gym facility. B, a fitness startup, uses the gym for two weeks to run training sessions for B's clients. There is no written agreement or arrangement for payment for the use of the gym, and B did not pay anything for the use. During those two weeks, B's clients paid B a total of 120,000 pesos for the training sessions. After the two weeks, A sues B to recover the value of the gym's use under Accion In Rem Verso. (a) Identify the doctrinal basis for the action and describe its essential elements. (b) Distinguish Accion In Rem Verso from an ordinary contract claim and from a tort-based claim. (c) Apply the doctrine to the facts and determine whether A may recover, and if so, the measure of damages and any relevant defenses or offsets.