General Provisions: Title. I. - Obligations
General Provisions: Title. I. - Obligations
General Provisions: Title. I. - Obligations
- OBLIGATIONS
CHAPTER 1
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Art. 1156. An obligation is a juridical necessity to give, to do or not to
do. (n)
Art. 1157. Obligations arise from:
delivering all its accessions and accessories, even though they may
not have been mentioned. (1097a)
Art. 1167. If a person obliged to do something fails to do it, the same
shall be executed at his cost.
This same rule shall be observed if he does it in contravention of the
tenor of the obligation. Furthermore, it may be decreed that what has
been poorly done be undone. (1098)
(1) Law;
(2) Contracts;
Art. 1168. When the obligation consists in not doing, and the obligor
does what has been forbidden him, it shall also be undone at his
expense. (1099a)
(3) Quasi-contracts;
(4) Acts or omissions punished by law; and
Art. 1190. When the conditions have for their purpose the
extinguishment of an obligation to give, the parties, upon the
fulfillment of said conditions, shall return to each other what they
have received.
Art. 1184. The condition that some event happen at a determinate time
shall extinguish the obligation as soon as the time expires or if it has
become indubitable that the event will not take place. (1117)
Art. 1185. The condition that some event will not happen at a
determinate time shall render the obligation effective from the
moment the time indicated has elapsed, or if it has become evident
that the event cannot occur.
As for the obligations to do and not to do, the provisions of the second
paragraph of Article 1187 shall be observed as regards the effect of
the extinguishment of the obligation. (1123)