Table of Contents

PRELIMINARY TITLE
Chapter 1: Effect and Application of Laws……………………………………………………………………… 1
Chapter 2: Human Relations…………………………………………………………………………………...… 1

BOOK I: PERSONS
Title I: CIVIL PERSONALITY………….…………………………….…………………………………..……… 3
Chapter 1: General Provision………………………………………………………………...……………….…… 3
Chapter 2: Natural Persons…………………………………………………………………...………………….… 3
Chapter 3: Juridical Persons……………………………………………………………………………………..… 4

Title II: CITIZENSIP AND DOMECILE………….…………………………………………...………………… 4

Title III: MARRIAGE………….………………………………….………………………………………………… 4

Chapter 1: Requisites of Marriage………….…………………………………………………………………… 4
Chapter 2: Marriages of Exceptional Character………….………..…………………...…………………….… 7
Chapter 3: Void and Voidable Marriages………….………………………………….… …………...…….…… 7
Chapter 4: Authority to Solemnize Marriages………….………………………………..………………….…… 9

Title IV: LEGAL SEPARATION………….………………………………….…………………………….…… 10

Title V: RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS BETWEEN HUSBAND AND WIFE………………………..… 11

Title VI: PROPERTY RELATIONS BETWEEN HUSBAND AND WIFE

Chapter 1: General Provisions………….………………………………….…………………………...………… 11
Chapter 2: Donations by Reasons of Marriage………….………………………………….………………… 12
Chapter 3: Parapheral Property………….………………………………….………………………………… 13
Chapter 4: Conjugal Partnership of Gains
Section 1: General Provisions………….………………………………….………………………….… 13
Section 2: Exclusive Property of Each Spouse………….…………………………………………..… 13
Section 3: Conjugal Partnership Property………….……………………………………………….… 14
Section 4: Charges Upon and Obligation of the Conjugal Partnership………….…………….… 14
Section 5: Administration of the Conjugal Partnership………….………………………………… 15
Section 6: Dissolution of the Conjugal Partnership………….……………………………………… 15
Section 7: Liquidation of the Conjugal Partnership………….……………………………………… 16
Chapter 5: Separation of Property of the Spouses and Administration of
Property by the Wife during the Marriage………….……………..…………………………… 17
Chapter 6: System of Absolute Community………….………………………………….………….………… 17
Chapter 7: System of Complete Separation of Property………….………………………………….……… 18

Title VII: THE FAMILY

Chapter 1: The Family as an Institution………….………………………………….……………………..…… 18
Chapter 2: The Family Home
Section1: General Provisions………….……………….…………………………………………….… 19
 Section 2: Judicial Constitution of the Family Home…….………………………………………… 19
Section 3: Extra-judicial Creation of the Family Home………….………………………………… 20
Chapter 3: The Family Council………….………………………………….…………………..……………….. 21

Title VIII: PATERNITY AND FILIATION

Chapter 1: Legitimate Children………….………………………..…….……………………………………… 21
Chapter 2: Proof of Filiation of Legitimate Children………….……………………………….…………… 22
Chapter 3: Legitimated Children………….…………………………………………………………………… 22
Chapter 4: Illegitimate Children
Section 1: Recognition of Natural Children………….……………………………………………..… 24
Section 2: Other Illegitimate Children………….………………………………….…………………… 24

Title IX: SUPPORT………….………………………………….……………………………………….………… 24

Title X: FUNERALS………….……………………………………..……….…………………………………… 25

Title XI: PARENTAL AUTHORITY

Chapter 1: General Provisions………….………………………………….………………………….………… 25
Chapter 2: Effect of Parental Authority Upon the Persons of the Children…………………………… 26
Chapter 3: Effect of Parental Authority on the Property of the Children………….…………………… 26
Chapter 4: Extinguishment of Parental Authority…………………..……………………………………… 26
Chapter 5: Adoption………….………………………………….………………………………………………… 27
Chapter 6: Substitute Parental Authority………….…………………………………………………………… 28

Title XII: CARE AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN……….……………………………………………… 28

Title XIII: USE OF SURNAMES………….………………………………….…………………..……………… 29

Title XIV: ABSENCE………….………………………………….…………………………………………..…… 30

Chapter 1: Provisional Measures in Case of Absence……………………………………………………… 30
Chapter 2: Declaration of Absence………….………………………………………………………………… 30
Chapter 3: Administration of the Property of the Absentee………….….………………………………… 31
Chapter 5: Effect of Absence Upon the Contingent Rights of the Absentee ………….………………… 31

Title XV: EMANCIPATION AND AGE OF MAJORITY

Chapter 1: Emancipation………….………………………………….…………………………………………… 31
Chapter 2: Age of Majority………….………………..………….……………………………………….……… 32

Title XVI: CIVIL REGISTER………….………………………………………………………………………… 32

BOOK II: PROPERTY, OWNERSHIP, AND ITS MODIFICATIONS

Title I: CLASSIFICATION OF PROPERTY

PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS …………………………….……………………………….………..………….… 33
Chapter 1: Immovable Property…………………………….……………………………….………………….… 33
Chapter 2: Movable Property…………………………….……………………………….…………………..… 33
Chapter 3: Property in Relation to the Person to Whom it Belongs ……………….………………….… 33

Title II: OWNERSHIP

Chapter 1: Ownership in General…………………………….……………………..….………..…………….… 34
Chapter 2: Right of Accession………….………………..………….……………………………………..……… 35
Section 1: Right of Accession with Respect to what is produced by property…………..….… 35
Section 2: Right of Accession with Respect to Immovable Property…………………………… 35
Section 3: Right of Accession with Respect to Movable Property…………….………………… 36
Chapter 3: Quieting to Title………….………………..………….……………………………………..……..… 37
Chapter 4: Ruinous Building and Trees in Danger of Falling……………..….………..……………..…… 37

Title III: CO-OWNERSHIP………….………………..………….………………………………………..……… 38

Title IV: SOME SPECIAL PROPERTIES

Chapter 1: Waters
Section 1: Ownership of Waters………….………………..………….………………………..……… 39
Section 2: The Use of Public Waters………….………………..……………………………..……… 39
Section 3: The Use of Waters of Private Ownership…………..…………...………………………….40
Section 4: Subterranean Waters………….……………….……………………………………..……… 40
Section 5: General Provisions………….………………..………….…………………………..……… 40
Chapter 2: Minerals………….………………..………….………………………………………………..…….… 40
Chapter 3: Trade-marks and Trade-names………….………………..………….………………..…..……… 40

Title V: POSSESSION
Chapter 1: Possession and the Kinds Thereof………….………………..…………..………………..……… 41
Chapter 2: Acquisition of Possession………….………………..………….…………………………..……… 41
Chapter 3: Effects of Possession………….………………..…….……………………………………..……… 41

Title IV: USUFRUCT

Chapter 1: Usufruct in General………….………………..………….……………………..…………..……… 42
Chapter 2: Rights of Usufructuary………….………………..………….………………………………..……… 43
Chapter 3: Obligations of Usufructuary………….………………..………….………………………..……… 44
Chapter 4: Extinguishment of Usufruct………….………………..………….…………………………..……… 46

Title VII: EASEMENTs of SERVITUDES

Chapter 1: Easements in General
Section 1: Different Kinds of Easements………….…………..………….……………………..……… 47
Section 2: Modes of Acquiring Easements………….….……………………………………..……… 47
Section 3: Rights and Obligations of the Owners of the Dominant and Servient Estates……47
Section 4: Modes of Extinguishment of Easements………….…………..……………………….… 48
Chapter 2: Legal Easements
Section 1: General Provisions…………..………….…………………………………………..……… 48
 Section 2: Easements Relating to Waters…………..………….………………………………..……… 48
Section 3: Easements of Right of Way…………..………….…………………………….……..……… 49
Section 4: Easement of Party Wall…………..………….……………………………………..…….… 50
Section 5: Easement of Light and View…………..………….………………………………………… 51
Section 6: Drainage of Buildings…………..………….…………………..…………………..……… 51
Section 7: Intermediate Distances and Works for Certain Constructions and Plantings…….52
Section 8: Easement Against Nuisance…………..………….………………………………..……… 52
Chapter 3: Voluntary Easements…………..………….………………………….……………………..……… 52

Title VIII: NUISANCE…………..………….……………………………………………….……………..……… 53

Title IX: REGISTRY OF PROPERTY…………..………….…………………………………………..……… 54

BOOK III: DIFFERENT MODES OF ACQUIRING OWNERSHIP

PRELIMINARY PROVISION…………..………….………………………………………………………..…… 54

Title I: OCCUPATION…………..………….……………………………………………………………...……… 54

Title II: INTELLECTUAL CREATION…………..………….……………..…………………………..…….… 54

Title III: DONATION

Chapter 1: Nature of Donations…………..………….…………………………………………………………… 55
Chapter 2: Persons who may Give or Receive a Donation…………..………….………………………..…… 55
Chapter 3: Effect of Donations and Limitations Thereon…………..………….……………………………… 56
Chapter 4: Revocation and Reduction of Donations…………..………………………………………..……… 57

Title IV: SUCCESSION

Chapter 1: General Provisions…………..………….……………………………………………………..……… 58
Chapter 2: Testamentary Succession
Section 1: Wills…………..………….……………………………………………………………..……… 59
Section 2: Institution of Heir…………..………….……………………………….……………..……… 62
Section 3: Substitution of Heirs…………..………….…………………………………………..……… 63
Section 4: Conditional Testamentary Dispositions & Testamentary Dispositions with a Term….64
Section 5: Legitimate…………..………….…………………………..…………………………..……… 65
Section 6: Disinheritance…………..………….…………………………………………..……..……… 67
Section 7: Legacies and Devises…………..………….……………………..…………………..……… 68
Chapter 3: Legal or Intestate Succession
Section 1: General Provisions…………..………….…………………………………………..……….. 71
Section 2: Order of Intestate Succession…………..………….………………………………..……… 72
Chapter 4: Provisions Common to Testate and Intestate Successions
Section 1: Right to Accretion…………..………….……………………………………………..……… 74
Section 2: Capacity to Succeed by Will or by Intestacy…………..………….…………..…..……… 74
Section 3: Acceptance and Repudiation of the Inheritance…………..………….………….…….… 76
 Section 4: Executors and Administrators…………..………….…………………………..…..……… 77
Section 5: Collation…………..………….…………………………………………..……………..….… 77
Section 6: Partition and Distribution of the Estate…………..………….…………………..……… 78

Title V: PRESCRIPTION
Chapter 1: General Provisions…………..………….…………………………………………………..……… 80
Chapter 2: Prescription of Ownership and Other Real Rights…………..………….………………..……… 81
Chapter 3: Prescription of Actions…………..………….……………………………………………………… 82

BOOK IV: OBLIGATIONS AND CONTRACTS

Title I: OBLIGATIONS
Chapter 1: General Provisions…………..………….……………………………………………………..……… 83
Chapter 2: Nature and Effect of Obligations…………..………….…………………………………….…….… 83
Chapter 3: Different Kinds of Obligations
Section 1: Pure and Conditional Obligations…………..………….…………………………..……… 84
Section 2: Obligations with a Period…………..………….……………………………………….…… 85
Section 3: Alternative Obligations…………..………….…………………………………………….… 86
Section 4: Joint and Solidary Obligations…………..………….…………………………….……...… 87
Section 5: Divisible and Indivisible Obligations…..………….…………………………….……....... 88
Section 6: Obligations with a Penal Code…..………….………………..……………….….……...… 88
Chapter 4: Extinguishment of Obligations…………..………….…………………………..……………..….… 88
Section 1: Payment or Performance…………..………….…………………………….………………. 89
Section 2: Loss of The Thing Due…………..………….…………………………..……………..…..… 91
Section 3: Condonation or Remission of the Debt…………..………….………………...……..….… 91
Section 4: Confusion or Merger of Rights…………..………….………………………………..….… 91
Section 5: Compensation…………..………….……………………………………………………….… 91
Section 6: Novation…………..………….…………………………………………..……………..….… 92

Title II: CONTRACTS

Chapter 1: General Provisions…………..………….…………………………………………..……………..…. 93
Chapter 2: Essential Requisites of Contracts…………..………….………………………………………..….. 94
Section 1: Consent…………..………….…………………………………………..……………..…….… 94
Section 2: Object of Contracts…………..………….……………………………………………..…..… 95
Section 3: Cause of Contracts…………..………….…………………………………………..…..….… 95
Chapter 3: Forms of Contracts…………..………….…………………………………………..……………..…. 96
Chapter 4: Reformation of Instruments…………..………….……….………………………………..………… 96
Chapter 5: Interpretation of Contracts…………………….…………………………………………..………… 97
Chapter 6: Rescissible Contracts…………..………….…………………………………………..………..….… 97
Chapter 7: Voidable Contracts…………..………….…………………………………………..………………… 98
Chapter 8: Unenforceable Contracts…………..………….………………………………………………..….… 99
Chapter 9: Void and Inexistent Contracts…………..………….…………………………………………..….… 99

Title III: NATURAL OBLIGATIONS…………..………….…………………………..………………...….… 100

Title IV: ESTOPPEL…………..………….…………………………………………..……………..….….………101

Title V: TRUSTS
Chapter 1: General Provisions…….…………………………………………..……………………..……..….. 101
Chapter 2: Express Trusts…….…………………………………………..……………………..………….,.….. 101
Chapter 3: Implied Trusts…….…………………………………………..…………………………………….. 102

Title VI: SALES

Chapter 1: Nature and Form of the Contract…….…………………………………………..…………….….. 102
Chapter 2: Capacity to Buy or Sell…….…………………………………………..……………………….,….. 104
Chapter 3: Effects of the Contract When the Thing Sold has been Lost…….………………………….….. 105
Chapter 4: Obligations of the Vendor
Section 1: General Provisions…….…………………………………………..…………………..….. 105
Section 2: Delivery of the Thing Sold…….…………………………………………..……………….. 105
Section 3: Conditions and Warranties…….…………………………………………..…………..….. 110
Chapter 5: Obligations of the Vendee…….…………………………………..…………………………..….. 113
Chapter 6: Actions for Breach Contract of Sale Goods…….………………..…………………………..….. 114
Chapter 7: Extinguishment of Sale…….…………………………………………..………………………..….. 115
Section 1: Conventional Redemption…….…………………………..…………………………..….. 115
Section 2: Legal Redemption…….…………………………………...…………………………..….. 116
Chapter 8: Assignment of Credits and other Incorporeal Rights…….……..…………………………..….. 117
Chapter 9: General Provisions…….…………………………………………..…………………………..….. 117

Title VII: BARTER EXHANGE…….…………………………………………..…………………………..….. 118

Title VIII: LEASE

Chapter 1: General Provisions…….…………………………………………..…………………………..….. 118
Chapter 2: Lease of Rural and Urban Lands
Section 1: General Provisions…….…………………………………..…………………………..….. 118
Section 2: Rights and Obligations of the Lessor and the Lessee …………………………….….. 119
Section 3: Special Provisions for Leases of Rural Lands…….…..…………………………..….. 121
Section 4: Special Provisions for Leases of Urban Lands…….……………………………..….. 121
Chapter 3: Work and Labor
Section 1: Household Service.…….……………………………………………….……………..….. 121
Section 2: Contract of Labor…….………………………………………….……………………..….. 122
Section 3: Contract for a Piece of Work…….…………………………………………..………..….. 122
Section 4: Common carriers…….……………………………………..…………………………..….. 124

Title IX: PARTNERSHIP

Chapter 1: General Provisions…….…………………………………………..…………………………..….. 126
Chapter 2: Obligations of Partners
Section 1: Obligations of the Partners Among Themselves………………..…………………..….. 127
Section 2: Property Rights of a Partner…….…………………………………………………..….. 129
 Section 3: Obligations of the Partners with Regard to the Third Persons…….……………… 130
Chapter 3: Dissolution and Winding Up…….…………………………………………..……………….….. 131
Chapter 4: Limited Partnership…….…………………………………………..…………………………..….. 135

Title X: AGENCY
Chapter 1: Nature, Form and Kinds of Agency…….……………………………………………………..….. 139
Chapter 2: Obligations of the Agent…….…………………………………………..……………………..….. 140
Chapter 3: Obligations of the Principal…….…………………………………………..………………….….. 142
Chapter 4: Modes of Extinguishment of Agency…….…………………………………………..………..….. 142
Title XI: LOAN
General Provisions…….…………………………………………..………………………………………….….. 143
Chapter 1: Commodatum…….…………………………………………..…………………………..……….... 143
Section 1: Nature of Commodatum…….…………………………………………..…………….….. 143
Section 2: Obligations of the Bailee…….……………………………..…………………………..….. 144
Section 3: Obligations of the Bailor…….……………………………..…………………………..….. 144
Chapter 2: Simple Loan or Mutuum…….…………………………………………..………………..…..….. 144

Title XII: DEPOSIT

Chapter 1: Deposit in General and its Different Kinds…….…………………………………………..…….. 145
Chapter 2: Voluntary Deposit
Section 1: General Provisions…….…………………………………………..………………….……. 145
Section 2: Obligations of the Depositary…….…………………………………………..…….……... 145
Section 3: Obligations of the Depositor…….…………………………………………..……….……. 147
Chapter 3: Necessary Deposit…….…………………………………………..…………………………..……... 147
Chapter 4: Sequestration or Judicial Deposit…….…………………………………………..……………….. 148

Title XIII: ALEATORY CONTRACTS

General Provisions…….…………………………………………..…………………………………………..….. 148
Chapter 1: Insurance…….…………………………………………..…………………………..……………….. 148
Chapter 2: Gambling…….…………………………………………..…………………………..…………..….... 148
Chapter 3: Life Annuity…….…………………………………………..……………………………………..….. 150

Title XIV: COMPROMISES AND ARBITRATIONS

Chapter 1: Compromises …….…………………………………………..…………………………..………….. 150
Chapter 2: Arbitrations…….…………………………………………..…………………………..…………….. 151

Title XV: GUARANTY

Chapter 1: Nature and Extent of Guaranty…….…………………………………………..…………………. 151
Chapter 2: Effects of Guaranty…….…………………………………………..…………………………..….. 152
Section 1: Effects of Guaranty between the Guarantor and the Creditor…………………….. 152
Section 2: Effects of Guarantor between the Debtor and the Guarantor………………….…… 153
Section 3: Effects of Guaranty as Between Co-Guarantors………………………………...…… 153
Chapter 3: Extinguishment of Guaranty…….…………………………………………..……………….…….. 154
Chapter 4: Legal and Judicial Bonds…….…………………………………………..…………………....….. 154
Title XVI: PLEDGE, MORTGAGE AND ANTICHRESIS
Chapter 1: Provisions Common to Pledge and Mortgage……………………………………………….. 154
Chapter 2: Pledge…….…………………………………………..……………………………………………….. 155
Chapter 3: Mortgage…….…………………………………………..…………………………..………………... 156
Chapter 4: Antichresis…….…………………………………………..…………………………..…………….... 157
Chapter 5: Chattel Mortgage…….…….………………………..…………………………..…………………... 157

Title XVII: EXTRA-CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS

Chapter 1: Quasi-contracts…….…………………………………………..…………………………..………... 157
Section 1: Negotiorum Gestio…….…………………………………………..………………………... 158
Section 2: Solutio Indebiti…….…………………………………………..……………….………..….. 159
Section 3: Other Quasi-contracts…….…………………………………………..………………..….. 159
Chapter 2: Quasi-delicts…….…………………………………………..…………………………..………….... 160

Title XVIII: DAMAGES 1

Chapter 1: General Provisions…….…………………………………………..…………………………….….. 161
Chapter 2: Actual or Compensatory Damages…….…………………………………………..…………….... 161
Chapter 3: Other Kinds of Damages…….…………………………………………..………….…………..….. 163
Section 1: Moral Damages…….…………………………………………..………………………..….. 163
Section 2: Nominal Damages.………….……………..………………………………………….…….. 163
Section 3: Temperate or Moderate Damages……...…………………………………………..…….. 163
Section 4: Liquidated Damages……………………….……………………………………………….. 164
Section 5: Exemplary or Correlative Damages……..……………………………………………….. 164

Title XII: CONCURRENCE AND PREFERENCE OF CREDITS

Chapter 1: General Provisions…….…….……………………..……………………………………………….. 164
Chapter 2: Classification of Credits…….……………………..……………………………………………….. 164
Chapter 3: Order of Preference of Credits…….…………………………………………………………….. 166
TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS……..…………………………..……………………………………………….. 166
REPEALING CLAUSE…….……………………………………..……………………………………………….. 167