PFR Flashcards
Injury vs. Damage vs. Damages
Injury is the illegal invasion of a legal right,
Damage is the harm which results from the injury
Damages are the compensation awarded for the damage suffered.
Custodio vs. Court of Appeals, 253 SCRA 483, G.R. No. 116100 February 9, 1996
Damnum absque Injuria
The legitimate exercise of a person’s right, even if it causes damage to another, does not automatically result to an actionable injury.
Moral Damages
Moral damages are a form of compensation for the “physical suffering, mental anguish, fright, serious anxiety, besmirched reputation, wounded feelings, moral shock, social humiliation, and similar injury
Abuse of Rights
- There is a legal right or duty;
- Which is exercised in bad faith; and
- For the sole intent of prejudicing or injuring another
Bad faith
it involves a dishonest purpose or some moral obloquy and conscious doing of a wrong, a breach of known duty due to some motives or interest or ill will that partakes of the nature of fraud.
Acts Contra Bonus Mores
- There is an act which is legal;
- Such act is contrary to MOGOP;
- It is done with intent to injure
Arts. 19-21
Article 19. Every person must, in the exercise of his rights and in the performance of his duties, act with justice, give everyone his due, and observe honesty and good faith.
Article 20. Every person who, contrary to law, wilfully or negligently causes damage to another, shall indemnify the latter for the same.
Article 21. Any person who wilfully causes loss or injury to another in manner that is contrary to morals, good customs or public policy shall compensate the latter for the damage.
Actions for breach of promise to marry
GR: Breach of promise to marry is not actionable
XP: 1. When one party has already made real efforts to prepare and spend for the wedding
- Grossly insensate and reprehensible transgressions which indisputably warrant justify the award of moral and exemplary damages
Malicious prosecution
- Proof that the prosecution was prompted by a sinister design to vex and humiliate a person
- Initiated deliberately by the defendant knowing that his charges were false and groundless
- the mere act of submitting the case for prosecution does not make one liable for malicious prosecution
Mercado v Ongpin
Malice or bad faith must be proved to sustain an action for damages based on Art. 19
Guevara vs. Banach
The party seeking damages must have acted on good faith
Baron’s Marketing vs. CA
A person who, in exercising his rights, does not act in an abusive manner contrary to morals, good customs or public policy as to violate the provisions of Art. 21
Globe Mackay vs. CA
Although the employer had the right to dismiss Tobias from work, the abusive manner in which that right was exercised amounted to a legal wrong
Art. 22 CC
Every person who through an act of performance by another, or any other means, acquires or comes into possession of something at the expense of the latter without just or legal , shall return the same to him
Guevara v Banach
Finding out that one’s betrothed is still married to another and are not who they say they are constitutes bad faith
MAY A DIVORCE DECREE OBTAINED ABROAD BY A FILIPINO SPOUSE MARRIED TO A FOREIGNER BE RECOGNIZED AS VALID IN THE PHILIPPINES?
Yes, Par. 2, Art. 26 of the Family Code still applies even if it is the Filipino spouse who obtained a divorce decree, thus, it will still capacitate him or her to remarry. The purpose of Par. 2 of Article 26 is to avoid the absurd situation where the Filipino spouse remains married to the alien spouse who, after a foreign divorce decree that is effective in the country where it was rendered, is no longer married to the Filipino spouse. Whether the Filipino spouse initiated the foreign divorce proceeding or not, a favorable decree dissolving the marriage bond and capacitating his or her alien spouse to remarry will have the same result: the Filipino spouse will effectively be without a husband or wife.
Passive vs. active misrepresentation
Active Misrepresentation - A minor misrepresents his age and physical features to mislead the other party into believing that he is of age. THE MINOR CANNOT, UPON REACHING THE AGE OF MAJORITY, ANNUL THE CONTACT ON THE GROUND OF ESTOPPEL
Passive Misrepresentation - May still annul the contract upon reaching the age of majority
Residence vs. Domicile
If a person’s intent be to remain, it becomes his domicile; if his intent is to leave as soon as his purpose is established it is residence. It is thus, quite perfectly normal for an individual to have different residences in various places. However, a person can only have a single domicile, unless, for various reasons, he successfully abandons his domicile in favor of another domicile of choice. Romualdez-Marcos vs. Commission on Elections, 248 SCRA 300, G.R. No. 119976 September 18, 1995
Change of domicile requisites
: 1. An actual removal or an actual change of domicile;
2. A bona fide intention of abandoning the former place of residence and establishing a new one; and
3. Acts which correspond with the purpose.
Romualdez-Marcos vs. Commission on Elections, 248 SCRA 300, G.R. No. 119976 September 18, 1995