CIVIL CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES
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CIVIL CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES
Republic Act No. 386
June 18, 1949
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Summary of the Civil Code of the PhilippinesGeneral Provisions
- Defines the scope and application of the Civil Code (Articles 1-36)
- Covers human relations, property rights, and obligations and contracts
- Establishes rules on the effectivity and interpretation of laws (Articles 1-13)
- Defines the scope of laws and customs (Articles 14-18)
Book I: Persons and Family Relations
Title I: Civil Personality
- Defines natural and juridical persons (Articles 37-49)
- Establishes rules on citizenship, domicile, and residence (Articles 48-54)
Title II: Marriage
- Defines the nature and requisites of marriage (Articles 52-73)
- Covers void and voidable marriages (Articles 80-89)
- Establishes rules on the authority to solemnize marriages (Articles 92-96)
Title III: Legal Separation
- Covers the grounds and effects of legal separation (Articles 97-107)
Title IV: Voidable Marriages and Annulment Proceedings
- Defines voidable marriages and grounds for annulment (Articles 108-113)
Title V: Divorce (Articles 114-116)
Title VI: Filiation
- Covers legitimate children and their rights (Articles 164-167)
- Establishes rules on the proof of filiation (Articles 168-175)
- Covers legitimated children (Articles 176-182)
- Covers illegitimate children and their rights (Articles 283-292)
Title VII: Adoption (Articles 334-348)
Title VIII: Parental Authority
- Defines parental authority and its effects (Articles 349-367)
- Covers substitute parental authority (Articles 368-379)
Title IX: Absence
- Covers provisional measures in case of absence (Articles 381-383)
- Establishes rules on the declaration of absence (Articles 384-386)
- Covers the administration of property of the absentee (Articles 387-389)
- Defines presumption of death (Articles 390-392)
- Covers the effects of absence on contingent rights (Articles 393-396)
Title X: Emancipation and Age of Majority
- Defines emancipation and its effects (Articles 397-401)
- Establishes the age of majority (Articles 402-406)
Title XI: Civil Register (Articles 407-413)
Book II: Property, Ownership, and Its Modifications
Title I: Classification of Property
- Classifies property as immovable or movable (Articles 414-426)
Title II: Ownership
- Defines ownership and its rights (Articles 427-438)
- Covers the right of accession (Articles 439-481)
- Covers the quieting of title (Articles 476-481)
- Covers ruinous buildings and trees in danger of falling (Articles 482-483)
Title III: Co-Ownership (Articles 484-501)
Title IV: Some Special Properties
- Covers waters (Articles 502-518)
- Covers minerals (Article 519)
- Covers trade-marks and trade-names (Articles 520-522)
Title V: Possession (Articles 523-561)
Title VI: Usufruct (Articles 562-612)
Title VII: Easements or Servitudes
- Covers easements in general (Articles 613-619)
- Covers the modes of acquiring easements (Articles 620-626)
- Covers the rights and obligations of the owners of the dominant and servient estates (Articles 627-630)
- Covers the modes of extinguishment of easements (Articles 631-633)
- Covers legal easements (Articles 634-689)
- Covers voluntary easements (Articles 688-693)
Title VIII: Nuisance (Articles 694-707)
Title IX: Registry of Property (Articles 708-711)
Book III: Different Modes of Acquiring Ownership
Title I: Occupation (Articles 713-720)
Title II: Intellectual Creation (Articles 721-724)
Title III: Donation
- Defines the nature of donations (Articles 725-734)
- Covers persons who may give or receive donations (Articles 735-744)
- Covers the effects of donations and limitations (Articles 750-771)
- Covers the revocation and reduction of donations (Articles 760-773)
Title IV: Succession
- Covers general provisions on succession (Articles 774-782)
- Covers testamentary succession (Articles 783-914)
- Covers disinheritance (Articles 915-923)
- Covers legacies and devises (Articles 924-959)
- Covers legal or intestate succession (Articles 960-1014)
- Covers provisions common to testate and intestate successions (Articles 1015-1057)
Title V: Estoppel (Articles 1431-1439)
Title VI: Trusts
- Covers general provisions on trusts (Articles 1440-1442)
- Covers express trusts (Articles 1443-1446)
- Covers implied trusts (Articles 1447-1457)
Title VII: Sales
- Covers the nature and form of the contract of sale (Articles 1458-1487)
- Covers the capacity to buy or sell (Articles 1489-1492)
- Covers the effects of the contract when the thing sold has been lost (Articles 1493-1494)
- Covers the obligations of the vendor (Articles 1495-1544)
- Covers the obligations of the vendee (Articles 1582-1593)
- Covers actions for breach of contract of sale of goods (Articles 1594-1599)
- Covers the extinguishment of sale (Article 1600)
- Covers conventional redemption (Articles 1601-1619)
- Covers legal redemption (Articles 1620-1623)
- Covers the assignment of credits and other incorporeal rights (Articles 1624-1634)
- Covers general provisions on sales (Articles 1636-1637)
Title VIII: Barter or Exchange (Articles 1638-1641)
Title IX: Lease
- Covers general provisions on lease (Articles 1642-1645)
- Covers the lease of rural and urban lands (Articles 1646-1689)
- Covers work and labor (Articles 1689-1711)
- Covers contract for a piece of work (Articles 1713-1731)
- Covers common carriers (Articles 1732-1766)
Title X: Partnership
- Covers general provisions on partnership (Articles 1767-1776)
- Covers the obligations of the partners (Articles 1784-1809)
- Covers the property rights of a partner (Articles 1810-1814)
- Covers the obligations of the partners with regard to third persons (Articles 1815-1825)
- Covers the dissolution and winding up of partnerships (Articles 1828-1842)
- Covers limited partnerships (Articles 1843-1867)
Title XI: Agency
- Covers the nature, form and kinds of agency (Articles 1868-1878)
- Covers the obligations of the agent (Articles 1884-1920)
- Covers the obligations of the principal (Articles 1910-1918)
- Covers the modes of extinguishment of agency (Articles 1919-1932)
Title XII: Loan
- Covers general provisions on loan (Articles 1933-1934)
- Covers commodatum (Articles 1935-1952)
- Covers simple loan or mutuum (Articles 1953-1961)
Title XIII: Deposit
- Covers deposit in general and its different kinds (Articles 1962-1967)
- Covers voluntary deposit (Articles 1968-1995)
- Covers necessary deposit (Articles 1996-2004)
- Covers sequestration or judicial deposit (Articles 2005-2009)
Title XIV: Aleatory Contracts
- Covers general provisions on aleatory contracts (Article 2010)
- Covers insurance (Articles 2011-2012)
- Covers gambling (Articles 2013-2020)
- Covers life annuity (Articles 2021-2027)
Title XV: Compromises and Arbitrations
- Covers compromises (Articles 2028-2041)
- Covers arbitrations (Articles 2042-2046)
Title XVI: Guaranty
- Covers the nature and extent of guaranty (Articles 2047-2057)
- Covers the effects of guaranty (Articles 2058-2081)
- Covers legal and judicial bonds (Articles 2082-2084)
Title XVII: Pledge, Mortgage and Antichresis
- Covers provisions common to pledge and mortgage (Articles 2085-2092)
- Covers pledge (Articles 2093-2123)
- Covers mortgage (Articles 2124-2131)
- Covers antichresis (Articles 2132-2139)
- Covers chattel mortgage (Articles 2140-2141)
Title XVIII: Extra-Contractual Obligations
- Covers quasi-contracts (Articles 2142-2175)
- Covers quasi-delicts (Articles 2176-2194)
Title XIX: Damages
- Covers general provisions on damages (Articles 2195-2198)
- Covers actual or compensatory damages (Articles 2199-2215)
- Covers other kinds of damages (Articles 2216-2235)
Title XX: Concurrence and Preference of Credits
- Covers general provisions on concurrence and preference of credits (Articles 2236-2240)
- Covers the classification of credits (Articles 2241-2245)
- Covers the order of preference of credits (Articles 2246-2251)
Transitional Provisions (Articles 2252-2269)
Repealing Clause (Article 2270)
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CIVIL CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES
Republic Act No. 386
•June 18, 1949
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 386
AN ACT TO ORDAIN AND INSTITUTE THE CIVIL CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES
PRELIMINARY TITLE
CHAPTER 1Effect and Application of Laws
Article 1. This Act shall be known as the "Civil Code of the Philippines." (n)
Article 2. Laws shall take effect after fifteen days following the completion of their publication in the Official Gazette, unless it is otherwise provided. This Code shall take effect one year after such publication. (1a)
Article 3. Ignorance of the law excuses no one from compliance therewith. (2)
Article 4. Laws shall have no retroactive effect, unless the contrary is provided. (3)
Article 5. Acts executed against the provisions of mandatory or prohibitory laws shall be void, except when the law itself authorizes their validity. (4a)
Article 6. Rights may be waived, unless the waiver is contrary to law, public order, public policy, morals, or good customs, or prejudicial to a third person with a right recognized by law. (4a)
Article 7. Laws are repealed only by subsequent ones, and their violation or non-observance shall not...
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