CHAPTER 3 - KINDS OF OBLIGATIONS (ART. 1179 - 1230) Flashcards
Obligations without a term or condition and is demandable at once
Pure obligations
I will pay you 500,000 is what kind of obligation?
Pure obligation
The effectivity of the obligation is dependent upon the happening or non-happening of a future and uncertain event
Conditional Obligation
What event should be present in an conditional obligation?
Future and Uncertain Event
Can past but unknown a valid event in terms of conditional obligations?
Yes
If the obligation is dependent on a future and certain event, what is that obligation called?
Obligations with a period
The happening of event will give rise to an obligation
Suspensive Condition
The happening of that event will extinguish the obligation
Resolutary Condition
Other term for Suspensive Condition
Condition antecedent or condition precedent
Other term for resolutary condition
Condition subsequent
I will give you 500,000 if you pass the 2024 bar examination
Suspensive Condition
I will give you a 20,000 monthly allowance until you pass the 2024 Bar Examinations
Resolutary Condition
What is article 1180?
When the debtor binds himself to pay when his means permit him to do so, so the obligation shall be deemed to be one with a period, subject to the provision of Article 1197. (Art. 1180)
Acquisition of rights
Suspensive Condition
Extinguishment or loss those already acquired
Resolutary Condition
Condition that depends on the sole will of one of the contracting parties
Potestative
Potestative on the part of the debtor + suspensive
Obligation is?
Void
Potestative on the part of the debtor + resolutary
Obligation is?
Valid
Potestative on the part of creditor + suspensive and resolutary
Obligation is?
Valid
Condition that depends upon chance or upon the will of third person
Casual
Obligations arising from casual conditions are?
Valid
A condition that depends partly upon the will of one of the parties and partly upon chance or upon the will of a third person
Mixed
Obligations arising from mixed conditions are?
Valid
D is to give C 50,000 if D goes to Baguio
Potestative on debtor and suspensive
D is to allow the use of his car by C until D returns from Baguio
Potestative on debtor and resolutory
D is to give C 50,000 if C goes to Baguio
Potestative on creditor and suspensive
D is to allow the use of his car by C until C returns from Baguio
Potestative on creditor an resolutary
D is to give C 50,000 if D wins the first prize in the lotto on the bet he placed this morning
Casual
D is to give C 50,000 if X goes to Baguio
Casual
D is to give C 50,000 if C will marry X
Mixed
When they, in nature of things, cannot exist or cannot be done
Physically impossible conditions
When conditions are contrary to law, morals, good customs, public order, or public policy
Legally impossible conditions
I will pay you P10,000 if it will not rain for one year in the Philippines
Physically impossible conditions
I will pay you P10,000 if you can carry twenty (20) cavans of palay on your shoulder
Physically impossible conditions
X will give Y P1,000 if Y-
(1) will kill Z (against the law); or
(2) will be the common-law wife of X (against morals); or
(3) will slap his father (against good customs); or
(4) will publicly advocate the overthrow of the govern- ment (against public order); or
(5) will not appear as a witness against X in a criminal case (against public policy).
Legally impossible conditions
Condition that some event will happen at a determinate time
Positive Condition
What happens to the obligation as soon as time expires or it has become indubitable that the event will not take place
It will extinguish
Condition that some event will not happen at a determinate time.
Negative Condition
What happens to the obligation as soon as time indicated has elapsed or it has become evident that the event will not occur?
It will become effective
P promise G to deliver his car if G will pass the bar exam. On the day of the examination, P poison G and G cannot take the bar exam anymore.
What is this fulfillment?
What will happen to the obligation?
Constructive Fulfillment, the obligation is not void. Debtor is still liable to fulfill the obligation.
What is the general rule in the effect of fulfillment of suspensive condition
The effect of the fulfillment of the suspensive condition retroacts to the day of the constitution of the obligation
Effects of Fulfillment of suspensive condition
P obliged himself to sell a parcel of land to G if she passed the Bar Exam on November and the results will be at December. Bago lumabas ang result, P is still the owner of the parcel of land because hindi pa nangyari yung condition. Pag labas ng result by December 2020, pumasa si G, after payment of delivery, G becomes the owner of the land (retroactive effect)
Paano kung nung October, binenta ni P kay B ang parcel of land, is it still valid?
Yes, because P is still the owner
Exceptions in effects of Fulfillment of suspensive condition
There shall be no retroactive effect with respect to the fruits and interest in reciprocal and unilateral obligations
The fruits and interests shall be deemed to have been mutually compensated, i.e., each party shall keep the fruits and interest received by him prior to the fulfillment of the condition.
Reciprocal Obligations in Fulfillment of suspensive condition
On May 1, 2019, S agreed to sell his land to B and B agreed to pay the price of P50,000.00 if X finishes his Accounting degree on March 15, 2024. X finished his Accounting degree as stipulated.
What would be the rule and exception?
Rule: It was as if S was entitled to the price and B to the land beginning on May 1. 2019.
Exception: S shall keep the fruits on the land and B the interest on the price during the pendency of the condition
The debtor keeps the fruits and interests received before the fulfillment of the condition.
Unilateral Obligations in Fulfillment of suspensive condition
On May 1, 2022. S promised to give B his land if B passed the Bar Examination in February 2023. B passed the Bar Examination as stipulated. What would be the rule and exception?
Rule: It was as if B was entitled to the land beginning on May 1, 2022
Exception: S will keep the fruits on the land during the pendency of the condition.
Rights given by him to bring the appropriate actions for the preservation of his right, such as by registering his claim with the Register of Deeds, if appropriate, to notify all third persons, or by asking the debtor to provide a security if the debtor is about to become insolvent.
Creditor
Rights given by him to recover what he has paid by mistake
Debtor
When does a thing considered loss?
When it perishes, or goes out of commerce or disappears in such a way that its existence is unknown or it cannot be recovered
What rule is applied when the thing is loss without the debtor’s fault
Obligation is extinguished
What rule is applied when the thing is loss with the debtor’s fault
Debtor is obliged to pay damages
D is obliged to give a specific house to C if C passes the CPA Licensure Examination. If the house is destroyed in a fire without the fault of D before C passes the CPA Licensure Examination. What is the rule?
D’s obligation is extinguished even if C, thereafter, passes the CPA Licensure Examination
D is obliged to give a specific house to C if C passes the CPA Licensure Examination. If the house is destroyed through the fault of D such as when he placed inside the house highly flammable chemicals which caused the fire. What is the rule?
D shall be obliged to pay damages to C should the latter pass the CPA Licensure Examination
When does a thing considered deteriorated?
If it becomes impaired in quality, functioning or condition.
What rule is applied when the thing is deteriorated without the debtor’s fault
The impairment shall be borne by the creditor, i.e., no liability on the part of the debtor to pay damages
What rule is applied when the thing is deteriorated with the debtor’s fault
The creditor may choose between
(a) Rescission, plus damages, and
(b) Fulfillment, plus damages.
D is obliged to give a specific car to C if finishes his economics degree. The deterioration of the car due to wear and tear before C finishes his economics degree will be borne by who?
Will be borne by C if C later finishes the said degree
D is obliged to give a specific car to C if finishes his economics degree. The deterioration of the car due to wear and tear before C finishes his economics degree will be borne by C if C later finishes the said degree. However, if the car is damaged in an accident due to D’s fault, C, if he finishes his economics degree. What would be the rule?
He may rescind the contract and ask for damages
Ask D to deliver the car in its deteriorated condition plus damages.
When does a thing considered improved?
If there is enhancement in its value or quality, such as when something is added or attached to it.
What rule shall be applied when the thing is improved by nature or by time?
The improvement shall inure to the benefit of the creditor
What rule shall be applied when the thing is improved at the expense of the debtor?
The debtor will have the rights granted to a usufructuary , i.e., he can have enjoyment of the use of the improved thing and its fruits
He may remove the improvement if no damage is caused to the principal thing. If the improvement cannot be removed without causing damage to the principal thing, the thing and the improvement shall be delivered to the creditor without any right on the part of the debtor to indemnity. He may, however, set off against the improvements any damage caused on the thing. (Arts. 579 and 580)
D is obliged to give his only car to C if C finishes his economics degree. Before C finished the said degree, D had the car repainted. What would be the rule?
D can continue using the car in its improved condition
D is obliged to give his only car to C if C finishes his economics degree. Before C finished the said degree, D had the car repainted. In this case, D can continue using the car in its improved condition. Upon the completion by C of his economics degree, D cannot remove the paint because it will cause damage to the car. However, if he had caused a dent on the car due to his fault, what would be the rule?
He may set off the cost of damage brought by such dent against the cost of repainting the car
Article 1189 is only applied when
- The suspensive condition is fulfilled
- The object is specific/ determinate not generic
What are the three kinds of loss?
Physical, Legal, Civil
When a thing perishes as when a house is burned and reduced to ashes
Physical Loss
When a thing goes out of commerce or when a thing heretofore legal becomes illegal
Legal Loss
When a thing disappears in such way that its existence is unknown or even if known, it cannot be recovered is dropped from a ship at sea
Civil Loss
Rule in case of fulfillment of resolutory condition
- The obligation is extinguished
- The parties should return or restore to each other what they have received including the fruits and interest
- In rule 1189 will apply to whoever has got a duty to return in case of loss, deterioration or improvement of the thing.
- If the obligation is to do or not to do, the courts are given the power to determine the retroactivity of the fulfillment of the condition
Rights to rescind includes
- Only in reciprocal obligations
- It can be demanded only if the parties is ready, willing and able to comply with his own obligations and the other is not
- The right to rescind is implied
- The right is not automatic or absolute. Apply to the court for decree of rescission
When the object is not yet delivered
The contract states that either party can rescind - The remedies of the injured or aggrieved party are alternate and not cumulative
Rescission plus damages
Fulfillment of the obligation plus damages
What does Art. 1192 says?
In case both parties have committed a breach of the obligation, the liability of the first infractor shall be equitably tempered by the courts. If it cannot be determined which of the parties first violated the contract, the same shall be deemed extinguished, and each shall bear his own damages
Obligations that are future and certain or certain to happen
Obligations with a period
Obligations that are future and uncertain or may or may not happen
Conditional Obligations
Because it is future and certain that the day will come – The arrival of which will determine the demandability of the obligation
Suspensive Period
I will give you 20,000 on December 25,2023
What kind of obligation with a period is this?
Suspensive Period
The arrival of the condition will extinguish the obligation
Resolutory Period
I will give you a 10,000 monthly allowance until December 31,2024
What kind of obligation with a period is this?
Resolutory Period
A day certain, an exact date
Definite period
Something in the future but certain to happen (you do not known when that will happen)
Indefinite Period
What are the kinds of the period?
(1) Conventional/Voluntary – agreed upon by the parties
(2) Legal – provided by law
(3) Judicial – court fixes the period
You borrowed money from a friend, you agreed that you will pay two years from today. A year from now, you paid him 50,000 pesos probably thinking that two years have already lapsed. However, it is not yet due and demandable. Can you still get back the money you’ve paid in advance?
Yes, you can still get back the money you have paid because the period has not arrive yet. You can also get the interest.
In general rule, when there is a period, that period must benefit both the debtor and the creditor.
True or False?
True
A and B agreed that A will pay his debt on August 5, 2025. What is the benefit of the period here?
(a) The debtor cannot compel the creditor to accept payment before August 5,2025
(b) The creditor cannot compel the debtor to make payment before August 5,2025
Benefit of both because
If debtor pays in advance - you will be depriving the creditor of interest
If creditor compel his debtor to pay in advance – the debtor may not be ready to pay yet and it will be more burdensome on him. Nor can the creditor compel the debtor to pay after the period because it may be burdensome on the part of the debtor.
In general rule, when there is a period, that period must benefit both the debtor and the creditor. However, exception is when parties agree otherwise.
True or False?
True