OBLIGATIONS Flashcards
identified by individuality
Determinate/specific
refers to class or genus
Generic/indeterminate
is the right or power of a person to demand from another — to give, to do, or not to do.
Personal Right
is a power over a specific thing (like the right of ownership or possession) and is binding on the whole world.
Real Right
Genus Nunguam Perit means
Genus Never Perishes
The primary obligation to give a determinate thing
To deliver the thing
The Accessory obligation to give a determinate thing
To take care of the thing
an extra ordinary event which cannot be foreseen or which though foreseen is inevitable.
A Fortuitous event
Those joined or included with the principal for the latter’s better use, perfection, or enjoyment
Accesssories
additions to or improvements upon a thing.
Accessions
Is dependent upon human intervention other than that of the obligor
Force majeure (Fuerza Mayor)
Failure to perform an obligation on time
Ordinary Delay / In-Default
Failure to perform the obligation on time which constitutes
Legal Delay / Default
There is fraud or willful violation of the obligation
Fraud / Dolo
is a deception of a serious character employed by one party and without which the other party would not have entered into a contract.
Dolo causante or causal fraud
those which are not serious in character and without which the other party would still have entered into the contract.
Dolo incedente or incidental fraud
Refers to negligence arising from contractual obligations, which are not fully and faithfully complied by the obligor. This is distinguished from culpa aquiliana, which refers to negligence independent of any contractual obligation
Negligence / Culpa
The delay must be either malicious or negligent.
Delay / Mora
Violation of the terms and condition stipulated in the obligation
Contravention of the tenor of the obligation