WESTERN MINDANAO STATE UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF LAW

COURSE OUTLINE
LAW ON SALES

COURSE INSTRUCTOR: JUDGE RYAN B. DELEÑA

LEARNING PERIOD: First Semester of Academic Year 2022-2023

REFERENCE/s: (a) Title VI of Book IV of the Civil Code

(b) Any text and/or commentaries available on the Law on Sales

STUDENT ASSESSMENT: (a) Case Digests

(b) Quizzes
(c) Recitations
(d) Midterm Examination (Optional)
(e) Final Examination

I. Introduction to the Law on Sales

(a) Sources of the Law on Sales
(b) Sales as a Contract

II. Nature and Form of Contract

(a) Essential elements of a Contract of Sale
Case: Reman Recio vs. Heirs of Spouses Aguedo
G.R. No. 182349, July 24, 2013

(b) Other elements of a Contract of Sale

(c) Characteristics of a Contract of Sale

(d) Sale distinguished from other contracts

Case: Inocencia Yu Dino vs. Court of Appeals and Roman Sio
G.R. No. 113564, June 20, 2001
Engineering & Machinery Corporation vs. Court of Appeals
G.R. No. 52267, January 24, 1996
Raymundo S. De Leon vs. Benita T. Ong
G.R. No. 170405, February 2, 2010
Iglesia Filipina Independiente vs. Heirs of Taeza
G.R. No. 179597, February 3, 2014

(e) Right to Transfer Ownership

Case: Makati Sports Club Inc. vs. Cecile Cheng and Ramon Sabarre
G.R. No. 178523, June 16, 2010
Alfonso Quijada et. al. vs. Court of Appeals et. al.
G.R. No. 126444, December 4, 1998
Hadja Fatima Magoya vs. Hadji Abubacar Maruhom
G.R. No. 179743, August 2, 2010
(f) Object of the Sale

Case: Philippine National Bank vs. Court of Appeals

G.R. No. 118357, May 6, 1997
Domingo Carabeo vs. Spouses Norberto and Susan Dingco

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 G.R. No. 190823, April 4, 2011

(g) Price
Case: Manuel Cantindig vs. Aurora Irene vda de Meneses
G.R. No. 165851, February 2, 2011

(h) Formation of Contract of Sales

Case: Heirs of Fausto C. Ignacio vs. Home Bankers Savings and
Trust Company
G.R. No. 177783, January 23, 2013
Ali Akang vs. Municipality of Isulan Sultan Kudarat
G.R. No. 186014, June 26, 2013
Virgilio David vs. Misamis Occidental II Electric
Cooperative
G.R. No. 194785, July 11, 2012
Spouses Carmen S. Tongson et. al. vs Emergency Pawnshop
G.R. No.167874, January 15, 2010
Helen Cabling vs. Joselin Tan Lumapas
G.R. No. 196950, June 18, 2014

(i) Form of a Contract of Sale and Formalities of Contract of Sale

(j) Recto Law (Sale of Movables by Installment)

II. Capacity to Buy and Sell

III. Effects of the Contract when the Thing Sold has been lost

IV. Obligations of the Vendor

(a) General Provisions

i. Obligation to Preserve the Object of the Sale
ii. Obligation to Transfer Ownership
iii. Obligation to Deliver

(b) Delivery of the thing sold

i. Modes of Delivery
ii. Kinds of Constructive Delivery
iii. Party who bears the risk of Loss
IV. Sale of Goods not by Owner and by Person having voidable
Title
v. Place and time of Delivery
vi. Incomplete Delivery
vii. Fruits and Accessories and Loss Deterioration or Improvement
of thing after perfection
viii. Sale at Rate Per Unit and Lump Sum
ix. Double Sales
Case: Spouses Carlos J. Suntay vs. Keyser Mercantile, Inc.
G.R. No. 208462, December 10, 2014
Spouses Peralta vs. Heirs of Bernardita Abalon
G.R. No. 183448 and 183464, June 30, 2014
Peblia Alfaro et. al. vs. Spouses Edith Dumalagan
G.R. No, 186622, January 22, 2014

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 (c)Conditions and Warranties
i. Conditions and Warranties
ii. Warranty in Case of Eviction
Case: Bignay Ex-Im Philippines Inc vs. Union Bank of the
Philippines
G.R. No. 171590 and 171598, February 12, 2014
iii. Warranty Against Hidden Defects
Case: Jerry T, Moles vs. IAC
G.R. No, 73913, January 31, 1989

V. Obligations of the Vendee

(a) Obligation to Pay

i. Suspension of Payment
ii. When Vendee in Sale of Immovable Property may Pay despite
expiration of the period
Case: Fil-Estate et. al. vs. Spouses Conrado Ronquillo
G.R. No. 185798, January 13, 2014
iii. When Vendee in Sale of Immovable Property may Sue for
rescission
iv. Suspension of Payment

(b) Delivery of the Goods by Installment

(c) Obligation to Accept Delivery

i. Right to Examine Goods
ii. Obligation of Vendee on refusal to accept goods
iii. Effects of Acceptance

(d) Obligation to Pay Interest

(e) Automatic Rescission of the Sale of Movable property

VI. Actions for Breach of Contract for Sale of Goods

(a) Remedies of the Seller and Buyer

(b) Remedies when the Sale Involves Movable Property

VII. Extinguishment of Sale

(a) Convention Redemption

Case:
CLARA BADAYOS v. THE COURT OF APPEALS et. al.
G.R. No. 57630. March 13, 1992

(b) Equitable Mortgage

Cases:
ROCKVILLE EXCEL INTERNATIONAL EXIM CORPORATION, vs.
SPOUSES OLIGARIO CULLA and BERNARDITA MIRANDA
G.R. No. 155716 October 2, 2009
SPOUSES JOHN T. SY AND LENY N. SY, AND VALENTINO T. SY, vs.
MA. LOURDES DE VERA-NAVARRO AND BENJAEMY HO TAN

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 LANDHOLDINGS, INC., HEREIN REPRESENTED BY GRACE T. MOLINA, IN
HER CAPACITY AS CORPORATE SECRETARY,
G.R. No. 239088 April 3, 2019

MARCELINO REPUELA AND CIPRIANO REPUELA, et al, vs. ESTATE OF

THE SPOUSES OTILLO LARAWAN AND JULIANA BACUS
GR NO. 219638 December 07, 2016

(c) Legal Redemption

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