Law on Obligations (Definition of Terms) Flashcards
A juridical necessity to give, to do or not to do.
Obligation
Lawful, voluntary and unilateral acts give rise to jurdical relation to the end that no one shall be unjustly enriched or benefited at the expense of another.
Quasi-contracts
Voluntary management of the property or affairs of another without the knowledge or consent of the latter.
Negotiorum gestio
Juridical relationship which is created when something is received when there is no right to demand for it and it was delivered through mistake.
Solutio indebiti
Acts or omissions punishable by law
Delicts
crimes
Acts or omissions causing damage or injury to another person due to the fault or negligence of another person but there is no pre-existing contract between them
Quasi-delicts/ culpa aquiliana/ torts
The prestation, act or service constituting the object of the obligation (to give, to do or not to do)
Object
A thing which is particularly designated or physically segregated from all of the same class
Specific or determinate thing
A thing which refers only to a class or genus to which it pertains and cannot be pointed out with particularity
Generic or indeterminate thing
things joined to the principal thing for its better use, embellishment, or completion
Accessories
Fruits of a thing or anything produced by it, attached or incorporated thereto as an addition or improvement
Accessions
Includes physical suffering, mental anguish, fright, serious anxiety, besmirched reputation, wounded feelings, moral shock, social humiliation, and similar injury
Moral Damages
Corrective damages are imposed, by way of example or correction for the public good, in addition to the moral, temperate, liquidated or compensatory damages
Exemplary Damages
Adjudicated in order that a right of a person, which has been violated or invaded by another, may be vindicated or recognized
Nominal Damages
Moderate damages, which are more than nominal but less than compensatory damages, may be recovered when the court finds that some pecuniary loss has been suffered but its amount cannot, from the nature of the case, be provided with certainty
Temperate Damages
Adequate compensation only for such pecuniary loss suffered by a person as duly proved
Actual Damages
Agreed upon by the parties to a contract, to be paid in case of breach thereof
Liquidated Damages
Consists in the ommission of that diligence which is required by the nature of the obligation corresponding to the circumstances of the person, of the time and of the place.
Negligence
Events that cannot be foreseen or although foreseeable are inevitable
Fortuitous Event
Exercise all rights and actions of the debtor except those which are inherent in his person
accion subrogatoria
Rescind contracts entered into by the debtor to defraud the creditor
accion pauliana
An obligation which is not subject to any condition; no specific date is mentioned for its fulfillment; demandable at once
Pure obligation
An obligation which is subject to the fulfillment of an obligation
Conditional obligation
Capable of fulfillment, legally or physically
Possible condition