EXTINGUISHMENT OF OBLIGATIONS Flashcards
Causes of extinguishment of obligations
- Payment or performance
- Loss of the thing due
- Condonation or remission of the debt
- Confusion or merger of rights of creditor and debtors
- Compensation
- Novation
- Annulment
- Rescission
- Fulfillment of resolutory condition
- Prescription
- Other causes
means not only the delivery
of money but also the performance, and any other matter, of an obligation. (Art. 1232
Payment
the money or currency which the debtor may compel his creditor to accept in payment of his debt (whether public or private)
Legal tender
Payment made by the debtor after court has ordered him to retain debt.
Payment made to the creditor by the debtor after the debtor has been judicially order to retain the debt shall _____ (Art. 1243) the court order is known as garnishment.
not be valid
Special forms of payment
- Dation in payment
- Application of payment
- Payment by cession
- Tender of payment and consignation
is transferred his creditor to pay a debt in money. (Art. 1245). It is governed by the law of sales since it partakes in a sense of the nature of a sale with the creditor in effect buying the property of the debtor.
Dation in payment (dation en pago, adjudication en pago, or datio in solutum)
It is the designation of the debt to which the payment shall be applied when the debtor owes several debts in favor of the same creditor. (Art. 1252)
Application of payment
is the abandonment or assignment
by the debtor of all his property in favor of his creditor so that the latter may sell them and recover their claims out
of proceeds. Art. 1255
Payment by cession
Kinds of payment by cession
a. Voluntary or conventional-agreed upon by the parties.
b. Legal- cession by operation of law.
Payment by cession or dation in payment?
- There must be two or more creditors.
- The debtor is insolvent.
- Affects all the debtors’ properties except those exempt from execution.
- The creditors are authorized to sell only the debtors properties.
- The debtor is not released as a rule.
Payment by cession
Payment by cession or dation in payment?
- Plurality of creditor is not required
- The debtor may not be insolvent
- Does not affect all the debtor’s properties.
- The creditor becomes the owner of the properties given
as payment. - The debtor is released as a rule
Dation in payment
the act of the debtor of offering to his creditor what is due him
Tender of payment
the act off depositing the sum or thing due with the judicial authorities whenever the creditor refuses without just cause to accept the same, or in the cases when the creditor cannot accept it.
Consignation
A thing is considered _____ when it perishes, or goes out
of commerce, or disappears in such a way that its
existence is unknown or cannot be recovered. Art. 1189,
par 2)
____ include a physical or legal impossibility of the
service in which the obligation consists.
lost ; LOSS
Loss of the thing while in the possession of the debtor shall be _____to be due to his fault, unless prove otherwise.
presumed
- Loss of a determinate thing
As a general rule, the loss of a determinate thing _______ the obligation. Art. 1262. The following are the exceptions:
extinguishes
- Loss of a generic thing
The loss or destruction of anything of the same kind does __________ the obligation (Art. 1263) Because a generic thing
does not really perish.
not extinguish