Professional Documents
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G.R. No. 108292. September 10, 1993.
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with all the required formalities and with full awareness of what
he was doing (Tanda vs. Aldaya, 89 Phil. 497 [1951]). Courts have
no power to relieve parties from obligations voluntarily assumed,
simply because their contracts turned out to be disastrous deals
or unwise investments.
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other, if the parties have acted in good faith and with a belief of
the actual existence of a settlement be made, free from fraud or
mistake, whereby there is a surrender or satisfaction, in whole or
in part, of a claim upon one side in exchange for or in
consideration of a surrender of value, upon the other, however
baseless may be the claim upon either side or harsh the terms as
to either of the parties, the other cannot successfully impeach the
agreement in a court of justice which reechoed 5 Ruling Case
Laws 883 (1914).
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