AUSL 1st Meeting

Question 1

Article 1

Answer 1

This Act shall be known as the “Civil Code of the Philippines.”

Question 2

What Act?

Answer 2

Republic Act 386

Question 3

Article 2

Answer 3

Laws shall take effect after 15 days following the completion of their publication either in the Official Gazette, or in a newspaper of general circulation in the Philippines, unless it is otherwise provided.

Question 4

Article 3

Answer 4

Ignorance of the law excuses no one from compliance therewith.

Question 5

Article 4

Answer 5

Laws shall have no retroactive effect, unless the contrary is provided.

Question 6

Article 5

Answer 6

Acts executed against the provisions of mandatory or prohibitory laws shall be void, except when the law itself authorizes their validity.

Question 7

Article 6

Answer 7

Rights may be waived, unless the waiver is contrary to law, public order, public policy, morals or good customs or prejudicial to a third person with a right recognized by law.

Question 8

Article 7

Answer 8

Laws are repealed only by subsequent ones, and their violation or non-observance shall not be excused by disuse, or custom or practice to the contrary.

When the courts declare a law to be inconsistent with the Constitution, the former shall be void and the latter shall govern.

Administrative or executive acts, orders and regulations shall be valid only when the are not contrary to the laws or the Constitution.

Question 9

Article 8

Answer 9

Judicial decisions applying or interpreting the laws or the Constitution shall form a part of the legal system of the Philippines.

Question 10

Article 9

Answer 10

No judge or court shall decline to render judgment by reason of the silence, obscurity or insufficiency of the laws.

Question 11

Article 10

Answer 11

In case of doubt in the interpretation or application of laws, it is presumed that the lawmaking body intended right and justice to prevail.