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is a meeting of minds between 2 persons whereby one binds himself to other, to give something or do somethingContracts

Contracts

CONTRACT MUST NOT:

1. Contrary to law 2. Morals 3. Good customs 4. Public order 5. Public Policy


deals w/ norms of good & right conduct evolved in community

Morals

consists of habits &practices w/c through long usage have been followed and enforced by society

Customs

public safety/public weal

PUBLIC ORDER

- broader than public order.- Contract w/ has a tendency to be injurious

Public policy

w/c has a specific name/designation in law. (commodatum,lease,agency)

Nominate Contract

- obligation is the legal tie or relation itself that exists after a contract. -There’s no contract if there’s no obligation. There is obligation even w/o contract


CONTRACT VS. OBLIGATION

-Agreement is broader than contract. -All contracts are agreement but not all agreements are contract.


CONTRACT VS. AGREEMENT

- no specific name or designation in law

INNOMINATE CONTRACT

1. DO UT DES – I give that u may give 2. DO UT FACIAS – I give that u may do 3. FACTO UT DES – I do that u may give 4.FACTO UT FACIAS – I do that u may do


KINDS OF INNOMINATE CONTRACT

1. The agreement of the parties. 2. Provision of the civil code on obligations and contracts. 3. The rules governing the most analogous contracts. 4.The customs of the place


RULES GOVERNING INNOMINATE CONTRACTS

contracts take effect only between the parties, their assigns and heirs EXCEPT obligations are not transmissible by

–nature - stipulation - law


PERSONS AFFECTED BY CONTRACT

-parties -their assigns/transferees -heirs


favor upon a 3rd person who has right to demand fulfillment

Stipulation pour autrui

3rd person who passes object of a contract over w/c there is a real right are bound to contract even if they are not parties.

Creating real rights

– is binding against the whole world & attaches to the property wherever it goes. -However, if real right is not registered, 3rd person who acted in good faith are protected under PPRD.


Real right

the creditor is given the right to impugn the contracts of his debtor to defraud him.

Defraud creditors

– 3rd person includes another to violate his contract can be sue. - it is presumed that the contract interfered w/ is valid and 3rd person has knowledge to its existence.


Violated at the inducement of the 3rd person

Perfected by mere consent (sale,lease,agency)

Consensual Contract

perfected by delivery. (delivery,pledge,commodatum)

Real Contract

compliance w/ certain formalities prescribed by law.(donation,must be in public instrument)

Solemn contract

steps taken leading to perfection of contract.

Preparation or Negotiation

definite agreement or meeting of minds

Perfection or Birth

Performed the obligation

Consummation/Termination

meeting of minds or mutual assent between parties on the subject matter and the cause w/c are to constitute the contract even if neither has been delivered.

CONSENT

is a proposal made by one party (offerer) to another (offeree), indicating willingness to enter into a contract.

OFFER

specific or determinate thing.

Must be certain

- An offer made in jest or anger is not seriously intended therefore not a valid contract. - Lack of serious intent to enter into a contract where such condition was not apparent to the offeree who honestly believed that the offer was seriously intended, does not invalidate the offer.


Seriously intended

is the manifestation by the offeree of his assent to all the terms of the offer.

ACCEPTANCE

considered an extension of the personality of his principal.

AGENT

one giving a person for a consideration a certain period within to accept the offer of the offerer.

OPTION CONTRACT

is the period given w/c the offeree must accept the offer.

OPTION PERIOD

money paid in consideration for the option.

OPTION MONEY

partial payment of the purchase price is considered as proof of perfection of the contract.

EARNEST MONEY

those persons who have not yet reached the age 18 and are still subject to parental authority.

Unemancipated Minors

“A person does not know how to write does not know how to read.

Deaf – mutes

temporary sanity during w/c a contract entered into by an insane or demented person is valid.

LUCID INTERVAL

it impairs the capacity of a person to give intelligent consent.

DRUNKNESS & HYPNOTIC SPELL

false notion of a thing or a fact material to the contract.

ERROR OR MISTAKE

an erroneous belief at contracting that certain facts are true.

MISTAKE

arises from an ignorance of some provision of law or from an erroneous interpretation of its meaning, or from an erroneous conclusion as to the legal effect of an agreement on the part of one parties.

MISTAKE OF LAW

the employment of serious, irresistible physical force

VIOLENCE OR FORCE

need not resort physical force. INTERNAL


INTIMIDATION

EXTERNAL

VIOLENCE

1. AGE 2. SEX 3. CONDITION OF THE PERSO


FACTORS OF INTIMIDATION

fear of displeasing a person whom respect and obedience are due, the contract is valid.

Reverential fear

takes improper advantage of his power over the will of another, depriving the latter of a reasonable freedom of choice.

UNDUE INFLUENCE

committed by one party before or at the time of celebration of the contract to secure the consent of the other. It is the fraud used by a party to induce the other to enter into a contract w/o w/c the latter would not have agreed to.

CAUSAL FRAUD

is equivalent to misrepresentation or false misrepresentation.

Concealment

the act of deliberately deceive others by feigning or pretending by agreement, the appearance of a contract w/c either non-existent or concealed.

SIMULATION

does not really exist. Inexsistent & void

Absolute simulation

contract entered by parties is different from their true agreement.

Relative simulation

All the things w/c are not outside the commerce of men, including future things, may be abject of a contract. All rights w/c are not transmissible may also be object of contracts.


OBJECTS OF CONTRACTS

essential reason or purpose which the contracting parties have in view at the time of entering into contract.

Cause of Contract

On the cause w/c, for each contracting party is the prestation or promise of a thing or service by the other. Parties are reciprocally obligated to each other

ONEROUS

one the cause of w/c is the service or benefit w/c is remunerated. The purpose of the contract is to REWARD the service that had been previously rendered by the party remunerated

REMUNERATORY

one the cause of w/c is the liberality of the benefactor or giver.


GRATUITOUS

purely personal or private reason w/c a party has entering into a contract. It is diff. from the cause of contract.

Motive

is any damage caused by the fact that price is unjust or inadequate. Inequality of situation, by one party who does not receive the full equivalent for what he gives in a commutative contract,

Lesion

refers to the manner in w/c a contract is executed or manifested.


Form of contract

MAY BE ORAL OR WRITTEN

INFORMAL CONTRACT

required by law for its efficacy to be certain specified form. - Donation of real property - Sale of land - donation - Stipulation to pay interest - Contract of partnership


FORMAL CONTRACT

REMEDY ALLOWED BY LAW MEANS OF W/C A WRITTEN INSTRUMRNT IS AMENDED OR RECTIFIED SO AS TO EXPRESS OR CONFORM TO THE REAL AGREEMENT OR INTENTION

REFORMATION

mistake of fact that is common to both parties.

MUTUAL MISTAKE

1. Rescissible


2.VOIDABLE/ANNULABLE


3.unenforceable


4. VOID

DEFECTIVE CONTRACTS:

those validly agreed upon because all the essential elements exist and therefore, legally effective but in the case established by law, remedy of rescission is granted in the interest or equity.

RECISSIBLE CONTRACTS

those w/c possess all the essential requisites of valid contract but one of the parties incapable of giving consent, consent is vitiated by mistake , violence, fraud, undue influence or fraud.

VOIDABLE/ ANNUALABLE

remedy provided by law for reason of public interest for the declaration of the inefficacy of a contract biased on a defect or vice in the consent of open of the contracting parties in order to restore them to their original position in w/c b4 they were b4 the contract was executed.

Annulment

Those that cannot be enforced or given effect in a court law or sued upon By reason of certain defects provided by law until and unless they are ratified according to law.

Unenforceable

those w/c, because of certain defects generally produce no effect at all. Inexistent from the beginning.

VOID