Title tL - NATURAL OBLIGATIONS Art. 1423, Obligations are civil or natural. Civil obligations give a right of action to compel their performance. Natural obligations, not being based on positive law but ‘on equity and natura law, do not grant a right of action to enforce their performance, but: after volintary fulfilment: by the obligor, they authorize the retention of what: has been delivered or rendered by reason thereo?. Some natural obligations are set: forth in the Following articles. ‘Art. 1424. When a right to sue upon a civil obligation has lapsed by extinctive prescription, the obligor who voluntarily performs the contract cannot recover what he has delivered or the value of the service he has rendered. ‘Art. 1425. When without the knowledge or against: the will 0° the debtor, a third person pays a debt which the obiigor is not legally bound to pay because tne action thereon has prescribed, but the debtor later voluntaniy reimburses the third person, the obligor cannot recover what he has paid. ‘Art. 1426. When a minor between eighteen and twenty-one years of age who has entered into a contract without tne consent of the parent: or guardian, atter the annulment: of the contract: volintariy returns the whole thing or price received, notwithstanding the €act the he has not been benetited thereby, there is no right: to demand the thing or price thus returned. ‘Art. 1427. When a minor between eighteen and twenty-one years of age, who has entered into a contract without: the consent af the parent or guardian, voluntarily Pays a sum of money or delivers a fungible thing in fulfilment: of tie obligation, there shall be no right to recover the same rom the obligee who has spent or consumed it in good faith. [160A Art. 1428. When, atter an action to enforce a civil obligation has failed the detendant: voluntarily performs the obligation, he cannot: demand the retum of what he has delivered or the payment of tne value of the service he has rendered ‘Art. 1429. When a testate or intestate heir voluntarily pays a debt of the decedent exceeding the value of the property which he received by will or by the law of intestacy from the estate of the deceased, the payment: is valid and cannot be rescinded by the payer. Art. 430. When a wil is declared void because it has not been executed in accordance with the formalities required by law, but one of the intestate heirs, atter the settlement of the debts of the deceased, pays a legacy in compliance with a clause in the defective wil, the payment is effective and irrevocable.