OBLICON M2 Flashcards
Types of real obligations
Determinate/specific
Indeterminate/Generic
Limited generic
Particularly designated or physically segregated from all others
of the same class;
Determinate/specific
Is designated merely by its class or genus;
Indeterminate/Generic
Generic objects confined to a particular class (Tolentino, 2002);
E.g. An obligation to deliver one of my horses.
Limited generic
Nature of the right of the creditor with respect to fruits
Before delivery
After delivery
Before delivery
Personal right;
After delivery
Real right.
The right or power of a person (creditor) to
demand from another (debtor), as a definite
passive subject, the fulfillment of the latter’s
obligation to give, to do, or not to do.
PERSONAL RIGHT
The right or interest of a person over a specific
thing (i.e. ownership, possession, mortgage),
without a definite subject against whom the
right may be personally enforced.
REAL RIGHT
There is a definite active subject and a definite
passive subject.
PERSONAL RIGHT
There is only a definite active subject without
any passive subject.
REAL RIGHT
Binding and enforceable only against a
particular person.
PERSONAL RIGHT
Directed against the whole World.
REAL RIGHT
Types of personal obligations
Positive
Negative
Positive
To do;
Negative -
Not to do.
Remedies in personal obligations
Positive personal obligations
Negative personal obligation
What are under Positive personal obligations?
Not purely personal act
Purely personal act
To have obligation executed at debtor’s expense plus damagets
Not purely personal act
Damages only.
Purely personal act
To have the prohibited thing undone at the expense of the debtor
plus damages. However, if thing cannot be physically or legally undone, only damages may be
demanded
Negative personal obligation
If specific performance will be allowed, it will amount to involuntary servitude which is prohibited
by the Constitution
Specific performance is not a remedy in positive personal obligations
Degree of diligence required
That agreed upon;
In the absence of such, that which is required by the law;
In the absence of the foregoing, diligence of a good father of a family
GR: breaches of obligation