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Law on Sales and Credit Transactions Flashcards

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Article 1458

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By the contract of sale one of the contracting parties (SELLER) obligates himself to (a) transfer the ownership and to (b) deliver a determinate (specific only) thing, and the other (BUYER) to pay therefor a price certain in money or its equivalent.

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Obligations of the SELLER [5]

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1. Transfer ownership
2. Deliver the thing
3. Warrant against eviction and hidden defects (natural)
4. Observe DGFF (default)
5. Pay for expenses

first two cannot be waived

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Obligations of BUYER [2]

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1. Accept delivery

  • if refusal is unjust - liable for damages, automatically owner

2. Pay the price

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Elements of Contract

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1. Essential

  • Common - COC / COPrice
  • Special (e.g. - delivery in real contracts)
  • Extraordinary (e.g. - price in a sale)

2. Accidental - may or may not be present
3. Natural - automatic part of the contract

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Characteristics of sale [7]

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  1. Consensual v. Real
  2. Bilateral v. Unilateral
  3. Reciprocal v. Non-reciprocal
  4. Onerous v. Gratuitous
  5. Commutative v. Aleatory [OR]
  6. Nominate v. Innominate
  7. Principal v. Accessory
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Stages of Sale

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(1) Preparation / Bargaining / Negotiation
(2) Perfection / Creation / Birth
(3)Termination / Consummation

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Is delivery required to create the contract of sale?

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No, it is a consensual contract. Delivery is required at the time of termination/consummation

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When is ownership required?

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At the time of delivery, which is required at the time of termination.

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Art 1475

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Art. 1475. The contract of sale is perfected at the moment there is a meeting of minds upon
the thing which is the object of the contract and upon the price.

From that moment, the parties may reciprocally demand performance, subject to the provisions of the law governing the form of contracts. (1450a)

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Perfection of Sale (1475)

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GR - No form is required
Exceptions

  1. If covered by Statute of Frauds (For
    ENFORCEABILITY    )
  • Sale of personal property 500 or more
    - IN WRITING, otherwise - UNENFORCEABLE
  • Sale of Real Property, regardless of value
    - IN WRITING
  1. Auction Sales (1476)

Form in Donation is for VALIDITY
If donation of PP more than 5000, should be in writing, otherwise void

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Auction Sales (1476)

When is sale perfected?
Can bidder withdraw?
Can auctioneer withdraw? GR / E Can seller bid? GR / E Can seller employ by-bidders or puffers?
Sale of separate lots by auction are separate sales

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When is sale perfected?
upon the fall of the hammer, or any customary manner

Can bidder withdraw?
Yes, before the fall of the hammer

Can auctioneer withdraw?
GR: Yes, before the fall of the hammer
XPN: Announces without reserve

Can seller bid?
GR: No
XPN: If the seller bids

Can seller employ by-bidders or puffers?
No, void.

Sale of separate lots by auction are separate sales
Each lot is a separate sale, contract

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Theories of perfection of contract [4]

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Manifestation - declares acceptance
Expedition - acceptance is sent
Reception - acceptance is received
Cognition- knowledge of acceptance

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Requisites of Objects in Sale

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- determinate
- licit / lawful
- not impossible
- right to transfer ownership at the time the object is delivered

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What could be the object of sale? [HE SCUUP?]

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HE SCUUP

  • Hope or expectancy [emptio spei]
  • Existing [owned, possessed] or future goods [manufactured, raised, acquired]
  • Subject to resolutory condition - pacto de retro
  • Contingency / subj to suspensive condition
  • Undivided interest in a thing
  • Undivided interest in a mass
  • Potential existence [emptio res speratae]
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When is the price certain?

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  1. fixed by parties
  2. fixed by TP - with mutual consent
    - if fixed by TP - VALID
    - if not fixed by TP - VOID
    When is the decision of TP not valid [2 instances]
    - disregarded a specific procedure
    - BF or mistake on part of TP
    If prevented by one of the parties [2 remedies]
    - cancel / rescind
    - demand for damages
  3. Fixed by court [2 instances]
    - bad faith
    - thing has been delivered or appropriated (1474)
  4. Price on a given day at a particular market
  5. With reference to another thing which is certain
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Effects of Price on contract of sale

  1. No cause / absence of cause
  2. Illegal cause
  3. False cause
  4. Failure of cause
  5. Inadequate / Insufficient cause
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  1. No cause / absence of cause = VOID
  2. Illegal cause = VOID
  3. False cause = VOID
  4. Failure of cause = VALID
  5. Inadequate / Insufficient cause = VALID
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Effect of gross inadequacy of the price
GR
XPN

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GR Sale is VALID
XPN
Rescissible - lesion of at least 1/4 [1380], if guardian is unauthorized = unenforceable
Voidable - 1330, MIVUF
Void - no intention to be bound / simulated

1470 - parties intended a donation - comply with form of donation
- PP exceeding 5k - in writing

1471 if the price is simulated = VOID. Follow form if it is a donation

Effect of gross inadequacy in involuntary sale/execution sale
- Sale is VALID, unless shocking to the conscience of men

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Option money v Earnest money

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Earnest money

  • part of purchase price
  • given where there is already a sale
  • buyer is bound to pay the balance
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Contract of sale v Contract of agency to sell

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Contract of sale

  • buyer is owner
  • buyer has to pay price
  • buyer acquires ownership after delivery
  • the seller warrants
  • buyer, as GR, cannot return object sold

Contract to sell

  • agent receives goods as goods of principal
  • agent is not owner
  • agent does not warrant unless there is agreement of authority
  • agent can return object if unable to sell to TP
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Contract for a piece of work

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  • special order by a party desiring it
  • borne by the worker or contractor
  • formalities under certain circumstances
21
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Schools of thought on sale [3]

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Massachusetts Rule - specifically done

New York Rule - if thing already exists, sale

English Rule - if material is more valuable, sale

What then is the rule?
Sale if ordered in the ordinary course of business
Piece of work - if manufactured SPECIALLY for the customer and upon his special order and not for the market

22
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Barter

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First rule = intention of the parties

If intent does not clearly appear

  • Barter - if thing is more valuable than money
  • Sale - if 50-50 or if thing is less valuable than money
23
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Deliver - Actual or constructive

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GR = Delivery transfers ownership

XPN - PACTUM RESERVATI DOMINII (Only pactum that is valid)
1. Express reservation
2. Implied reservation

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Sale or return v sale on trial

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Sale or return
- resolutory
- Will of buyer
- Ownership is transferred upon delivery
- Option to RETURN instead of paying

Sale on trial/approval/satisfaction
- suspensive
- quality of goods
- seller retains ownership
- ownership passes when buyer signifies (3)

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Promise to buy or sell

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Art. 1479. A (mutual) promise to buy and sell a determinate thing for a price certain is reciprocally
demandable.
An accepted unilateral promise to buy or to sell a determinate thing for a price certain is binding
upon the promissor if the promise is supported by a consideration distinct from the price. (1451a)

dapat both promises are mutual to have a contract of sale

26
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res perit domino

  • thing perishes with owner
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  1. Lost before perfection
  • void
  • seller bears loss
  1. Lost at the time of perfection
  • sale is void
  • seller bears loss
  1. Lost after perfection and BEFORE delivery
  • buyer bears loss, but in 1504 it is seller
  1. Lost after perfection and AFTER delivery
  • buyer bears loss

What is the status of the contract?
Who bears the loss?

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1480 v 1504

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After perfection and BEFORE delivery - BUYER bears loss

XPN
1. 1480, 3rd par - fungible things sold for price fixed accdg to weight, number, or measure
2. to secure performance by buyer
3. party at fault

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Sale by sample / description

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Art. 1481. In the contract of sale of goods by description or by sample, the contract may be
rescinded if the bulk of the goods delivered do not correspond with the description or the sample,
and if the contract be by sample as well as description, it is not sufficient that the bulk of goods
correspond with the sample if they do not also correspond with the description.
The buyer shall have a reasonable opportunity of comparing the bulk with the description or the
sample. (n)

Remedy: Rescission

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Prohibition between Spouses

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GR= H&W cannot sell properties to each otehr
XPN
1. Marriage settlement executed prior to the marriage
2. Judicial separation of property during marriage

Not allowed to donate properties to each other or enter into universal partnership

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Incapacity by reason of relation to property 1491

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Voidable
1. Guardian
2. Agents
3. Executors / administrators

Void
4. Public officers and employees
5. justices, judges, prosecutors
6. Other persons specially disqualified
- aliens
- unpaid seller
- officer conducting execution sale

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Effect of total and partial loss at time of perfection 1493

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Entirely lost - INEFFECTIVE

Partially lost
- remedies
1. Withdrawal
2. Specific performance

1494 In case of specific goods
1. withdraw
2. proportionate reduction

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Ways of effecting deliver

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  1. Actual or real delivery
    - covers personal property
  2. Constructive or legal delivery
    - legal formalities
    - symbolical or traditio symbolica / clavium - only to movable
    - tradition longa manu - only to movable
    - tradition brevi manu - short hand
    - traditio constitutom possessorium - opposite of brevi manu
  3. Quasi-traditio delivery - incorporeal things
  4. public instrument
  5. placing of titles of ownership
  6. allowing vendee to use rights as new owner with consent of vendor
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