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In the Article 1136 of the Nature and Effect of Obligations, it is stated that "Every

person obliged to give something is also obliged to take care of it with the proper diligence
of a good father of a family, unless the law or the stipulation of the parties requires another
standard of care”. The statement was compared to a family particularly to a good father
when it comes to his diligence of taking care of what he is obliged with given that a good
father would be true to his obligations.

With the provision referring to the obligation involving a specific or determinate thing,
we can compare it to a family wherein a father(debtor) is asked by his child(creditor) of a
certain thing that the child needed. In return, the father should give the exact same thing
identical to what his child is asking. And if incase his child only mentioned features of an
item, the father should also take in consideration all of what the child said in order for him to
be satisfied with what is going to be given. As the father, he knows that he cannot change
what the child is needing so if incase he intends to change what he is going to buy for the
child, he should first take the child’s consent just to ask him if the changes would be fine for
him. The same is true the other way around. The child should not expect

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