Creditor
Determinate Thing:
1. Specific performance;
2. Damages in case of breach of
obligation.
Indeterminate Thing:
1. Ask for performance of obligation;
2. Ask that the obligation be complied
with at the expense of the debtor;
3. Damages in case of breach of
obligation.
Obligation to give: Duties of the Debtor
Determinate Thing:
1. Deliver the thing which he has
obligated himself to give;
2. Take care of the thing with proper
diligence of a good father of a
family;
3. To deliver all accessions and
accessories;
4. Damages in case of breach of
obligation.
Positive Obligation to do: Effect of
Breach
1. Perform or execute the obligation
at the expense of the obligor; and
damages;
2. To ask that what has been poorly
done be undone.
Negative Obligation to do: Effect of
Breach
1. Undone the same at the expense of
the obligor;
2. Damages.
Breach of Obligation due to Mora
Mora signifies the ideal delay in the
fulfillment of an obligation.
Kinds of Mora
1. Mora solvendi delay of the obligor
or debtor to perform his obligation;
2. Mora accipiendi delay of the
oblige or creditor to accept delivery
which is the object of the
obligation;
2.
3.
4.
5.
Classification of Conditions
Suspensive when the fulfillment
of the condition results in the
acquisition of rights arising out of
the obligation;
Resolutory when the fulfillment of
the condition results in the
extinguishment of rights arising out
of the obligation;
Potestative when the fulfillment
of the condition depends upon the
will of a party to the obligation.
Causal when the fulfillment of the
condition depends upon chance
and/or upon the will of a third
person.
Mixed when the fulfillment of the
condition depends partly upon the
will of a party to the obligation and
partly upon chance and/or the will
of a third person.
upon
the
fulfillment
of
the
potestative condition and not to a
pre-existing obligation.
Obligation Subject to Suspensive
Condition: Lost, Deteriorated or
Improvements were introduced
1. If the thing is lost without fault of
the debtor, the obligation shall be
extinguished;
2. If the thing is lost through the fault
of the debtor, he shall be obliged to
pay damages;
3. When
the
thing
deteriorates
without the fault of the debtor, the
impairment is to be borne by the
creditor;
4. If it deteriorates through the fault
of the debtor, the creditor may
choose between recission of the
obligation and its fulfillment, with
indemnity for damages in either
case.
5. If the thing is improved by its
nature,
or
by
time,
the
improvement shall inure to the
benefit of the creditor;
6. If it is improved at the expense of
the debtor, he shall have no other
right than that granted to the
usufructuary.
Reciprocal Obligation
Reciprocal obligation are those which are
created or established at the same time,
out of the same cause, and which result in
mutual relationship of creditor and debtor
between the parties.
Effect: Failure to Comply of One in
Reciprocal Obligations
Injured party may choose between the
fulfillment and the rescission of the
obligation, with the payment of damages
in either case.
or
the
for
the
payment
Penal Clause
Is an accessory obligation attached to a
principal obligation by virtue of which the
obligor is bound to pay a stipulated
indemnity or to perform an agreed
prestation for the purpose of insuring the
performance of the principal obligation.
Kinds of Penalties
1. Legal or conventional legal when
constituted
by
law
and
conventional when it is constituted
by agreement of parties;
2. Compensatory
or
punitive
Compensatory
when
it
is
established for the purpose of
indemnifying the damages suffered
by the oblige or creditor in case of
breach of the obligation; it is
punitive when it is established for
the purpose of punishing the
debtor in case of breach of the
obligation;
3. Subsidiary or joint subsidiary
when only the penalty may be
demanded in case of breach; it is
joint when the injured party may
demand the enforcement of both
the penalty and the principal
obligation.