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dailies

Sunday, November 18, 2007

-8:29 pm

Article 1156: An obligation is a juridical necessity to give, to do, or not to do.

I did Legal Management for pre-law. I should know that already. However, I wasn't that interested, and now, I wish to heaven I paid enough attention, or that we trained to read loads of cases, because we're all having difficulty reading a terrible amount of readings.

Last Friday was (or is?) supposed to be Day 3 for our Obligations and Contracts class. So we already touched up a lot of topics on Obligations, which may or may not interest you. The standard example was the delivery of a horse.

(Example)Question: A has promised to deliver a horse to X on May 10, 2010. Unfortunately, before the date of delivery, the horse died, being struck by lightning, before the date of delivery.
Would A be liable for the death of the horse?

Answer: No. A will not be liable.

Invoking Article...um...uh...

I forgot.

Wait.

Since the horse died through a fortuitous event, and that the person who was obliged to deliver the horse took extraordinary care of the horse, he cannot be liable. Invoking Article 1174 of the Civil Code, acts of God, like typhoons, earthquakes or lightning are inevitable, therefore, relieving him of liability. Unless otherwise stated by law, or when A acted in bad faith, he is liable.

I could be wrong.

There was no class on Friday for Obligations, but for our Land Titles and Deeds class,we met the famous Justice Oswaldo Agcaoili (famous, in our terms, because he is also the author of the textbook that every law school uses for Land Titles and Deeds).

And, look here!

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He signed our textbooks. :)

And tonight, I am supposed to fulfill my obligation to study, whether or not it is a juridical necessity.