The requisites of an obligation are: passive and active subject, prestation, efficient cause, and demand.
The right of the creditor that is enforceable against a definite debtor is a real right.
Specific performance may not be possible in a civil obligation where A, a painter, obliges himself to paint the portrait of B on April 9, 2009.
Civil obligations are based on equity and justice.
The person in whose favor the obligation is constituted is the debtor.
The person who has the duty of giving, doing or not doing is the obligor.
The object or subject matter of the obligation is the prestation.
The efficient cause or juridical tie why the obligation exists is the active subject.
The duty not to recover what has voluntarily been paid although payment was no longer required is a civil obligation.
The sources of obligations which are a rule of conduct, just and obligatory, promulgated by legitimate authorities for common good, benefit and observance are contracts.
Default on the part of the creditor is also a form of delay in the fulfillment of an obligation.
Damages awarded to vindicate a right are liquidated.
A wife was about to deliver a child and her parents brought her to the hospital, leading to the question of who should pay the expenses for medical attendance.
A can insist on just paying B damages or the monetary value of the sugar.
When the exact amount of damages cannot be ascertained, damages are determined beforehand.
A is obliged to give B 10 kilos of sugar, but B can just buy 10 kilos of sugar and charge the expense to A.
Both answers are not correct.
Both answers are correct.
Damages awarded for mental and physical anguish are exemplary.
Delay in the fulfillment of an obligation occurs when demand by the creditor is necessary.
Generic B refers to a class, to a genus and cannot be pointed out with particularity.
B may require another person to deliver the sugar and charge the expenses to A.
Damages awarded to set an example are exemplary.
Civil obligations cannot be enforced by court action and depend exclusively upon the good conscience of the debtor.
A owes B P1,000.
A, knowing that the debt has prescribed, nevertheless, still pays B.
A can recover what he voluntarily paid because B has no right to demand the payment effected by A.
The payment extinguished the natural obligation.
Whenever in an obligation a period is designated, it is presumed to have been established for the benefit of both the creditor and debtor.
If the substitute is lost by a fortuitous event, the obligation is not extinguished.
In a will, a promise to give is not an obligation.
If two or more prestations have been agreed upon but only one is due, the obligation is solidary.
Instances where the law imposes solidary liability include obligations arising from tort.
In a joint obligation, joint means any of the following, except proportionate.
Using the preceding number, the right of choice, belongs to the debtor.
In a valid obligation, the right of choice belongs to the debtor.
Anything paid or delivered before the arrival of the period, the obligor being unaware of the period or believing that the obligation has become due and demandable, may be recovered without interests.
If all objects were lost thru A’s fault, the value of the first thing lost plus damages must be given to B.
A will give B P1,000 if B will not pose nude in a painting session.
A is obliged to give B, at A’s option either object No. 1, Object No. 2, or Object No. 3.