CIVIL LAW AND COMMERCIAL LAW 2021

1.

A couples executes a prenuptial agreement which principally provides that their

marriage shall be valid for only five years but that it can be renewed through mutual
consent negotiated at least six months before its expiration.

Is this contract valid? Explain briefly.

2.

A corporation which owns a hospital was sued along with a physician for medical
malpractice. The corporation moved to dismiss the case, arguing that it was only the
physician, as the natural person, who could be the subject of any kind of suit. In other
words, the corporation argued that it was not a legal person.

Is the position of the corporation owning the hospital legally tenable? Explain briefly.

3.

A wife was able to validly obtain a judicial declaration of her husband’s presumptive
death after he had disappeared