obligation 3 Flashcards
it is
particularly designated or physically segregated from all
others of the same class
specific or determinate
when it refers only to a
class or genus to which it pertains and cannot be pointed
out with particularity.
generic or indeterminate
is identified only by its specie. The
debtor can give anything of the same class as long as it is
of the same kind.
generic thing
identified by its individuality. The
debtor cannot substitute it with another although the latter
is of the same kind and quality without the consent of the
creditor
determinate thing or specific
In obligations
to give (real obligations), the obligor has the incidental
duty to take care of the thing due with the diligence of a
good father of a family pending delivery. The phrase has
been equated with ordinary care or that diligence which an
average (a reasonably prudent) person exercises over his
own property.
Diligence of a good father of a family
are the spontaneous products of the soil,
and the young and other products of animals, e.g., grass;all trees and plants on lands produced without the
intervention of human labor.
Natural fruits
s are those produced by lands of any
kind through cultivation or labor, e.g., sugar cane;
vegetables; rice; and all products of lands brought about
by reason of human labor
Industrial fruits
are those derived by virtue of a juridical
relation, e.g., rents of buildings, price of leases of lands
and other property and the amount of perpetual or life
annuities or other similar income. (
Civil fruits
1 is the right or power of a person
(creditor) to demand from another (debtor), as a defi nite
passive subject, the fulfi llment of the latter’s obligation to
give, to do, or not to do.
Personal right1
right or interest of a person over a
specific thing (like ownership, possession, mortgage,
lease record) without a definite passive subject against
whom the right may be personally enforced.
2) Real right2
s are the fruits of, or additions to, or
improvements upon, a thing (the principal), e.g., house or
trees on a land; rents of a building; airconditioner in a car;
profits or dividends accruing from shares of stocks; etc.
Accessions
are things joined to, or included with, the
principal thing for the latter’s embellishment, better use, or
completion, e.g., key of a house; frame of a picture;
bracelet of a watch; machinery in a factory; bow of a violin.
Accessories
If a person obliged to do something fails to
do it, the same shall be executed at his cost.
ART. 1167
When the obligation consists in not doing,
and the obligor does what has been forbidden him, it
shall also be undone at his expense.
ART. 1168
Those obliged to deliver or to do
something incur in delay from the time the obligee
judicially or extra-judicially demands from them the
fulfillment of their obligation.
ART. 1169.