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thus returned.
NATURAL OBLIGATIONS
“Obligations are civil or natural. Civil When a minor between eighteen and
obligations give a right of action to compel twenty-one years of age, who has entered
their performance. Natural obligations, not into a contract without the consent of the
being based on positive law but on equity parent or guardian, voluntarily pays a sum of
and natural law, do not grant a right of money or delivers a fungible thing in
action to enforce their performance, but fulfillment of the obligation, there shall be no
after voluntary fulfillment by the obligor, right to recover the same from the obligee
they authorize the retention of what has who has spent or consumed it in good faith.
been delivered or rendered by reason (1160a)
thereof. Some natural obligations are set
forth in the following articles. “
Art. 1428