OBLIGATIONS

Question 1

Any rule of action or any system of uniformity -De Leon

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Law

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Not limited to the activities of men as rational beings but movements and motion of all other animate or inanimate objects

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Law

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General Divisions of Law

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Strict Legal Sense and Non-legal Sense

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AKA State Law

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Strict Legal Sense

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Promulgated/Enforced by the state

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Strict Legal Sense

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Not promulgated/enforced by the state

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Non-legal Sense

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Law of religion and faith which concerns itself with the concept of sin and salvation

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Divine Law

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Divine inspiration of man of the sense of justice, fairness, and righteousness, not by divine revelation or formal promulgation, but by internal dictates of reason alone

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Natural Law

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Concerns the totality of the norms of good and right conduct coming from the sense of right and wrong in every community

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Moral Law

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Uniformities of actions and orders of sequence, which are the physical phenomena that people sense and feel

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Physical Law (Law of Physical Science)

Question 11

Characteristic of Law:
Law only acknowledges external acts telling what shall be and shall not be done

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It is a rule of conduct

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Characteristic of Law:
Law is a positive command imposing obedience

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It is obligatory

Question 13

Characteristic of Law:
The legislature is the legitimate and competent authority in a democratic country. Under the Constitution, laws called “statutes” are enacted by Congress

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It is promulgated by legitimate authority

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Characteristic of Law:
Law is intended by man to serve man. It regulates harmonious relations to order nd co-existence possible

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It is a common observance and benefit

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Necessity and Functions of Law

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Law secures justice
Law resolves social conflict
Law orders society
Law protects interest
Law controls social relations

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Sources of Law:
The written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited, and defines where these powers are distributed among the several departments for their safe and useful exercise to benefit the people

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Constitution

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Sources of Law:
Acts passed by the legislature are so-called enacted law or statute law. This includes ordinances enacted by local government units

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Legislation

Question 18

Sources of Law:
Issued by administrative officials under legislative authority to clarify or explain the law carry into effect its general provisions. Administrative acts are valid only hwen they are not contrary to the law and constitution

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Administrative or executive orders, regulations, and rulings

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Sources of Law:
Court decisions applying or interpreting the laws from part of the legal system of the Philippines. The decisions of a superior court on a point of law are binding on all subordinate courts. This is called the doctrine of precedent or state decisis,

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Judicial decisions and jurisprudence

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Sources of Law:
Habits and practices which through long and uninterrupted usage have become acknowledged and approved by society as binding rules of conduct

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Custom

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Classifications of Law:
Responsible for creating, defining, and regulating rights and duties, either public or private in character

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Substantive Law

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Classifications of Law:
Prescribes the manner or procedure by which rights may be enforced or their violations redressed. This is sometimes called remedial law or procedural law

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Adjective Law

Question 23

Classifications of Law:
Regulated the rights and duties arising from the relationship of the state to the people

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Public Law

Question 24

____ Defines _____ as the body of rules which deals with the nature and sources of obligations and the rights and duties arising from agreements and the particular contracts

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Art 1307
Law of Obligations and Contracts

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Covers law on obligations and contracts

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RA 386 (Civil Code of the Philippines)

Question 26

Based mainly on the Civil Code of Spain which took effect in the Philippines on _____. It was approved as RA 386 on ______ and took effect on ______.

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Civil Code of the Philippines
December 7 1889
June 18 1949
August 30 1950