Midterm Flashcards
Credit transactions
Sets of contracts governing money and assets
Credit
Ability of person to incur debt based on the evaluation of another person (trust, confidence).
His ability to borrow money by virtue of the confidence or trust reposed by a lender that he will pay what he may promise
Based on the ability to pay
Loan
One party delivers to another money or other consumable thing, upon the condition that the same amount of the same kind and quality shall be paid
Credit (TILA)
- Any loan, mortgage, deed of trust, advance, or discount
- Any conditional sales contract
- Any contract to sell
- Any sale or contract of sale of property or services, either for present or future delivery, under which part or all of the price is payable subsequent to the making of such sale/contract
- Any rental-purchase contract
- Any contract or arrangement for the hire, bailment, or leasing of property
- Any option, demand, lien, pledge, or other claim against, or of the delivery of, property or money
- Any purchase or other acquisition of any obligation of claim arising out of any of the foregoing
- Any credit upon the security of any obligation of claim arising out of any of the foregoing
- Any transaction or series of transaction having a similar purpose or effect
Commodatum
One of the parties delivers to another something non-consumable so that the latter may use the same for a certain time and return it
Purpose of a loan
Permissive use
Commodatum vs. loan
1) Object
2) What is allowed
3) For consideration?
4) What happens to ownership?
Obligations under loan
1) To deliver
2) To return or pay
When is loan perfected?
Upon delivery of the object
What does the bailee acquire in commodatum?
The use of the thing; not the fruits
What character does commodatum have
Personal in character
What happens if there are 2 or more bailees?
Solidarily liable
What is the bailee liable for?
Ordinary expenses and damages due to his fault
Essential features of commodatum
- Gratuitous
- Use of a thing belonging to another for a certain period
Precarium
When a bailor can demand the return of the thing at will because the thing is merely tolerated/no duration was stipulated
What is bailor liable for?
- Extraordinary expenses (so long as bailee brings the same to the knowledge of the bailor before incurring them)
What happens to extraordinary expenses arising from the occasion of actual use by bailee even though no fault from him?
Born equally by bailor and bailee unless there’s stipulation to the contrary
When is bailee liable for the loss of the thing (even if fortuitous)
1) Devotes it to any purpose diff from that for which it was loaned
2) Keeps it longer than the period stipulated
3) Thing loaned has been delivered with an appraised value, UNLESS there’s a stipulation exempting the bailee from responsibility in case of a fortuitous event
4) Lends/leases the thing to a 3rd person not a member of his household
5) Being able to save between the thing borrowed or his own thing, he chose to save the latter
Can bailor demand immediate return of the thing?
YES. When bailee commits acts of ingratitude
When may bailor demand the thing at will?
Precarium
Acts of ingratitude
Bailee’s right of retention
Only for damages (due to not being given notice of flaws); NOT right for expenses or for things owed
Fungible
Capable of being replaced by the same kind; no act can make it determinable
Object of loan
Money or any other fungible thing
Obligations of a debtor (loan)
To pay the creditor an equal amount of the same kind and quality
Barter
One person transfers the ownership of non-fungible things to another with the obligation on the part of the latter to give things of the same kind, quantity and quality
Interest
Compensation fixed by the parties for the use or forbearance of money
When does right to interest arise?
By virtue of a contract/damages for delay or failure to pay the principal loan on which interest is demanded
Requirements for interest
Expressly stipulated in writing
Who prescribes legal interest
Monetary Board of the CBP
Escalation clause
Stipulations that govern
Obligation when you get a loan of a fungible thing other than money
Owe another thing of the same kind, quantity and quality even if the thing changes in value
Mutuality of contracts
Validity or compliance to a contract can’t be left to the will of one of them
Escalation clauses
Stipulations allowing an increase in the interest rate agreed upon by the contracting parties.
Purpose of escalation clauses
Maintain fiscal stability and retain the value of the money
When is demand unnecessary?
1) Obligation or law expreslsly declares
2) Nature and circumstance, designation of time was a controlling motive
3) Demand would be useless; obligor has rendered it beyond his power to perform
Compensatory interest
1) Obligations consisting in the payment of a sum of money
2) Debtor incurs in delay
Forbearance
Arrangements other than loan agreements, where a person acquiesces to the temporary use of his money, goods or credits pending happening of certain events or fulfillment of certain conditions
When is stipulated interest valid?
Not excessive and unconscionable
Creditor needs to provide what? (TILA)
- Cash price
- Amounts to be credited as down
- Difference between the two
- Charges (indiv. itemized); not incident to the extension of credit
- Total amount to be financed
- Finance charge
Percentage that the finance bears to the total amount to be financed
Penalties TILA
1) Failure to disclose information - P100/amount = 2x the finance charged; not exceeding 2K
2) Willfully violates any provision - P1K-5K, or impirsonment not < 6 months
What guides Monetary Board
1) existing economic conditions
2) supply and demand for credit
3) rat e of increase in the price levels
4) other relevant criteria
Forbearance (usury law)
A contractual obligation of the lender or creditor to refrain, during a given period of time, from requiring the borrower or debtor to repay a loan then due and payable
Obligations in a deposit
Safekeep and return a thing
Voluntary deposit
Delivery is made by the will of the depisot
When is a deposit extinguished
Loss or destruction
Death of depositor/depositary (fgratuitous)
Form for deposits
No form