OBLIGATIONS AND CONTRACT
Meaning/s
Section I- Pure and Conditional
Obligations
 Art. 1179 – Every obligation
whose performance does not
depend upon a future or
uncertain event, or upon a
past event unknown to the
parties, is demandable at
once.
 Every obligation which
contains resolutory condition
shall also be demandable
without prejudice to the
effects of the happening of
the event.
INFRA
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 Pure Obligation – is one which is not subject to any condition
and no specific date is mentioned for its fulfillment and is,
therefore, immediately demandable.
 Conditional Obligation – is one whose consequences are
subject in one or another to the fulfillment of a condition.
 Condition - Is a future and uncertain event upon the happening
of which, the effectively or extinguishment of an obligation (or
right) subject to it depends.
CHARACTERISTICS OF A CONDITION
1. Future and Uncertain even – in order to constitute an event as a
condition, it is not enough that it be future.it also must be
uncertain.
2. Past but unknown - A condition may refer to a past event
unknown to the parties (infra). If it refers to a future event both
its very occurrence and the time of such occurrence must be
uncertain; otherwise, it is not a condition.
2 principal kinds of condition
 Suspensive condition (condition precedent or condition
antecedent) – are one of the fulfillment od which will give rise to
an obligation (or right)
 In other words, the demandability of the obligation is suspended
until the happening of the uncertain event which constitutes the
condition.
o Precedent- an act in the past that which may be used as
an example to help decide the outcome of similar
instances in the future.
o Antecedent-any thing that precedes another thing,
especially the cause of the second thing.