Law Articles Flashcards
Article 1156
An obligation is a juridical necessity to give, to do, or not to do.
Article 1157
Obligations arise from
1) . Laws;
2) . Contracts;
3) . Quasi-Contracts;
4) . acts or omissions punished by law; and
5) . Quasi-delicts
Article 1163
Every person obliged to give something is also obliged to take care of it with the proper diligence of a good father of a family, unless the law or the stipulation of the parties requires another standard of care.
Article 1164
The creditor has a right to the fruits of the thing from the time the obligation to deliver it arises. However, he shall acquire no real right over it until the same has been delivered to him.
Article 1165
When what is to be delivered is a determinate thing, the creditor, in addition to the right granted to him by Article 1170, may compel the debtor to make the delivery.
Article 1158
Obligations derived from law are not presumed. Only those expressly determined in this Code or in special laws are demandable, and shall be regulated by the precepts of the law which establishes them; and as to what has not been foreseen, by the provisions of this Book.
Article 1159
Obligations arising from contracts have the force of law
between the contracting parties and should be complied with in good faith.
Article 1160
Obligations derived from quasi-contracts shall be subject to the provisions of Chapter 1, Title XVII of this Book.
Article 1161
Civil obligations arising from criminal offenses shall be governed by the penal laws, subject to the provisions of article 2177, and of the pertinent provisions of Chapter 2, Preliminary Title, on Human Relations, and of Title XVIII of this Book, regulating damages.
Article 1162
Obligations derived from quasi-delicts shall be governed by the provisions of Chapter 2, Title XVII of this Book, and by special laws.
Article 1166
The obligation to give a determinate thing includes that of delivering all its accessions and accessories, even though they may not have been mentioned.
Article 1167
If a person obliged to do something fails to do it, the same shall be executed at his cost.
This same rule shall be observed if he does it in contravention of the tenor of the obligation. Furthermore, it may be decreed that what has been poorly done be undone.
Article 1168
When the obligation consists in not doing and the obligor does what has been forbidden him, it shall also be undone at his expense.
Article 1169
Those obliged to deliver or to do something incur in delay from the time the obligee judicially or extrajudicially demands from them the fulfillment of their obligation.
However, the demand by the creditor shall not be necessary in order that delay may exist:
(1) When the obligation or the law expressly so declare; or
(2) When from the nature and circumstances of the obligation it appears that the designation of the time when the thing is to be delivered or the service to be rendered was a controlling motive for the establishment of the contract; or
(3) When demand would be useless, as when the obligor has rendered it beyond his power to perform.
In reciprocal obligations, neither party incurs in delay
if the other does not comply or is not ready to comply in a proper manner with what is incumbent upon him. From the moment one of the parties fulfills his obligation, delay by the other begins.
Article 1170
Those who in the performance of their obligations are guilty of fraud, negligence, or delay, and those who in any manner contravene the tenor thereof, are liable for damages.