Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
CHAPTER 2
Human Relations (n)
BOOK I
PERSONS
TITLE I
CIVIL PERSONALITY
CHAPTER 1
General Provisions
CHAPTER 2
Natural Persons
TITLE II
CITIZENSHIP AND DOMICILE
TITLE III
MARRIAGE
CHAPTER 1
Requisites of Marriage
CHAPTER 2
Marriages of Exceptional Character
CHAPTER 3
Void and Voidable Marriages
TITLE IV
LEGAL SEPARATION
TITLE V
RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS BETWEEN HUSBAND AND
WIFE
TITLE VI
PROPERTY RELATIONS BETWEEN HUSBAND AND WIFE
CHAPTER 1
General Provisions
CHAPTER 2
Donations by Reason of Marriage
CHAPTER 3
Paraphernal Property
CHAPTER 4
Conjugal Partnership of Gains
SECTION 1
General Provisions
SECTION 2
Exclusive Property of Each Spouse
SECTION 3
Conjugal Partnership Property
SECTION 4
Charges Upon and Obligation of the Conjugal
Partnership
SECTION 6
Dissolution of the Conjugal Partnership
Article 191. The husband or the wife may ask for the
separation of property, and it shall be decreed when
the spouse of the petitioner has been sentenced to a
penalty which carries with it civil interdiction, or
has been declared absent, or when legal separation
has been granted.
CHAPTER 6
System of Absolute Community
CHAPTER 7
System of Complete Separation of Property
TITLE VII
THE FAMILY(n)
CHAPTER 1
The Family as an Institution
CHAPTER 2
The Family Home (n)
SECTION 1
General Provisions
SECTION 2
Judicial Constitution of the Family Home
Article 238. Upon the death of the person who has set
up the family home, the same shall continue, unless
he desired otherwise in his will. The heirs cannot
ask for its partition during the first ten years
following the death of the person constituting the
same, unless the court finds powerful reasons
therefor.
SECTION 3
Extra-judicial Creation of the Family Home
CHAPTER 3
The Family Council (n)
TITLE VIII
PATERNITY AND FILIATION
CHAPTER 1
Legitimate Children
CHAPTER 2
Proof of Filiation of Legitimate Children
CHAPTER 3
Legitimated Children
CHAPTER 4
Illegitimate Children
SECTION 1
Recognition of Natural Children
TITLE IX
SUPPORT
TITLE X
FUNERALS (n)
TITLE XI
Parental Authority
CHAPTER 1
General Provisions
CHAPTER 2
Effect of Parental Authority Upon the
Persons of the Children
CHAPTER 3
Effect of Parental Authority on the
Property of the Children
CHAPTER 4
Extinguishment of Parental Authority
CHAPTER 5
Adoption
CHAPTER 6
Substitute Parental Authority (n)
(1) Guardians;
(5) Grandparents;
TITLE XII
Care and Education of Children
TITLE XIII
Use of Surnames (n)
TITLE XIV
ABSENCE
CHAPTER 1
Provisional Measures in Case of Absence
CHAPTER 2
Declaration of Absence
CHAPTER 3
Administration of the Property of the
Absentee
CHAPTER 4
Presumption of Death
CHAPTER 5
Effect of Absence Upon the Contingent
Rights of the Absentee
TITLE XV
EMANCIPATION AND AGE OF MAJORITY
CHAPTER 1
Emancipation
CHAPTER 2
Age of Majority
TITLE XVI
CIVIL REGISTER
BOOK II
TITLE I
CLASSIFICATION OF PROPERTY
PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 2
Movable Property
CHAPTER 3
Property in Relation to the Person to Whom
It Belongs
CHAPTER 1
Ownership in General
CHAPTER 2
Right of Accession
GENERAL PROVISIONS
SECTION 1
Right of Accession with Respect to What is
Produced by Property
SECTION 2
Right of Accession with Respect to
Immovable Property
SECTION 3
Right of Accession with Respect to Movable
Property
CHAPTER 3
Quieting of Title (n)
CHAPTER 4
Ruinous Buildings and Trees in Danger of
Falling
TITLE III
CO-OWNERSHIP
(1) The main and party walls, the roof and the other
things used in common, shall be preserved at the
expense of all the owners in proportion to the value
of the story belonging to each;
TITLE IV
SOME SPECIAL PROPERTIES
CHAPTER 1
Waters
SECTION 1
Ownership of Waters
SECTION 3
The Use of Waters of Private Ownership
SECTION 4
Subterranean Waters
CHAPTER 2
Minerals
TITLE V
POSSESSION
CHAPTER 1
Possession and the Kinds Thereof
CHAPTER 2
Acquisition of Possession
CHAPTER 3
Effects of Possession
CHAPTER 1
Usufruct in General
CHAPTER 2
Rights of the Usufructuary
CHAPTER 4
Extinguishment of Usufruct
TITLE VII
EASEMENTS OF SERVITUDES
CHAPTER 1
Easements in General
SECTION 1
Different Kinds of Easements
SECTION 2
Modes of Acquiring Easements
SECTION 3
Rights and Obligations of the Owners of the
Dominant and Servient Estates
SECTION 4
Modes of Extinguishment of Easements
CHAPTER 2
Legal Easements
SECTION 1
General Provisions
Article 642. Any person who may wish to use upon his
own estate any water of which he can dispose shall
have the right to make it flow through the
intervening estates, with the obligation to indemnify
their owners, as well as the owners of the lower
estates upon which the waters may filter or descend.
(557)
SECTION 3
Easement of Right of Way
SECTION 6
Drainage of Buildings
SECTION 7
Intermediate Distances and Works for
Certain Constructions and Plantings
SECTION 8
Easement Against Nuisance (n)
SECTION 9
TITLE VIII
NUISANCE (n)
TITLE IX
REGISTRY OF PROPERTY
Preliminary Provision
Article 712. Ownership is acquired by occupation and
by intellectual creation.
TITLE I
Occupation
TITLE III
DONATION
CHAPTER 1
Nature of Donations
CHAPTER 2
Persons Who May Give or Receive a Donation
CHAPTER 4
Revocation and Reduction of Donations
TITLE IV
SUCCESSION
CHAPTER 1
General Provisions
(1) Testamentary;
CHAPTER 2
Testamentary Succession
SECTION 1
Wills
SUBSECTION 1. Wills in General
SECTION 2
Institution of Heir
SECTION 3
Substitution of Heirs
(3) Reciprocal; or
SECTION 4
Conditional Testamentary Dispositions and
Testamentary Dispositions With a Term
The same shall be done if the heir does not give the
security required in the preceding article. (801a)
SECTION 5
Legitime
SECTION 6
Disinheritance
SECTION 7
Legacies and Devises
CHAPTER 3
Legal or Intestate Succession
SECTION 1
General Provisions
SUBSECTION 1. Relationship
SECTION 2
Order of Intestate Succession
SUBSECTION 1. Descending Direct Line
SECTION 1
Right of Accretion
SECTION 2
Capacity to Succeed by Will or by Intestacy
SECTION 4
Executors and Administrators
SECTION 5
Collation
SECTION 6
Partition and Distribution of the Estate
SUBSECTION 1. Partition
TITLE V
PRESCRIPTION
CHAPTER 1
General Provisions
CHAPTER 2
Prescription of Ownership and Other Real
Rights
CHAPTER 3
Prescription of Actions
BOOK IV
Obligations and Contracts
TITLE I
Obligations
CHAPTER 1
General Provisions
(1) Law;
(2) Contracts;
(3) Quasi-contracts;
CHAPTER 2
Nature and Effect of Obligations
CHAPTER 3
Different Kinds of Obligations
SECTION 1
Pure and Conditional Obligations
SECTION 4
Joint and Solidary Obligations
SECTION 5
Divisible and Indivisible Obligations
SECTION 6
Obligations with a Penal Clause
CHAPTER 4
Extinguishment of Obligations
General Provisions
(5) By compensation;
(6) By novation.
SECTION 2
Loss of the Thing Due
SECTION 5
Compensation
SECTION 6
Novation
TITLE II
CONTRACTS
CHAPTER 1
General Provisions
CHAPTER 2
Essential Requisites of Contracts
General Provisions
Article 1321. The person making the offer may fix the
time, place, and manner of acceptance, all of which
must be complied with. (n)
SECTION 2
Object of Contracts
CHAPTER 3
Form of Contracts
CHAPTER 4
Reformation of Instruments (n)
(2) Wills;
CHAPTER 6
Rescissible Contracts
CHAPTER 7
Voidable Contracts
CHAPTER 8
Unenforceable Contracts (n)
CHAPTER 9
Void and Inexistent Contracts
TITLE IV
ESTOPPEL (n)
TITLE V
TRUSTS (n)
CHAPTER 1
General Provisions
CHAPTER 2
Express Trusts
CHAPTER 3
Implied Trusts
TITLE VI
SALES
CHAPTER 1
Nature and Form of the Contract
CHAPTER 3
Effects of the Contract When the Thing Sold
Has Been Lost
(1) As avoided; or
CHAPTER 4
Obligations of the Vendor
SECTION 1
General Provisions
CHAPTER 5
Obligations of the Vendee
CHAPTER 6
Actions for Breach of Contract of Sale of
Goods
CHAPTER 7
Extinguishment of Sale
SECTION 1
Conventional Redemption
SECTION 2
Legal Redemption
CHAPTER 8
Assignment of Credits and Other Incorporeal
Rights
Article 1631. One who sells for a lump sum the whole
of certain rights, rents, or products, shall comply
by answering for the legitimacy of the whole in
general; but he shall not be obliged to warrant each
of the various parts of which it may be composed,
except in the case of eviction from the whole or the
part of greater value. (1532a)
CHAPTER 9
General Provisions
TITLE VII
BARTER OR EXCHANGE
TITLE VIII
LEASE
CHAPTER 1
General Provisions
CHAPTER 2
Lease of Rural and Urban Lands
SECTION 1
General Provisions
SECTION 2
Rights and Obligations of the Lessor and
the Lessee
SECTION 3
Special Provisions for Leases of Rural
Lands
SECTION 4
Special Provisions for the Lease of Urban
Lands
CHAPTER 3
Work and Labor
SECTION 1
Household Service (n)
SECTION 2
Contract of Labor (n)
SECTION 3
Contract for a Piece of Work
SECTION 4
Common Carriers (n)
SUBSECTION 1. General Provisions
TITLE IX
PARTNERSHIP
CHAPTER 1
General Provisions
CHAPTER 2
Obligations of the Partners
SECTION 1
Obligations of the Partners Among
Themselves
SECTION 2
Property Rights of a Partner
SECTION 3
Obligations of the Partners with Regard to
Third Persons
CHAPTER 3
Dissolution and Winding Up
CHAPTER 4
Limited Partnership (n)
TITLE X
AGENCY
CHAPTER 1
Nature, Form and Kinds of Agency
CHAPTER 2
Obligations of the Agent
CHAPTER 3
Obligations of the Principal
CHAPTER 4
Modes of Extinguishment of Agency
TITLE XI
LOAN
General Provisions
CHAPTER 1
Commodatum
SECTION 1
Nature of Commodatum
SECTION 3
Obligations of the Bailor
CHAPTER 2
Simple Loan or Mutuum
TITLE XII
DEPOSIT
CHAPTER 1
Deposit in General and its Different Kinds
CHAPTER 2
Voluntary Deposit
SECTION 1
General Provisions
SECTION 2
Obligations of the Depositary
(1) If it is so stipulated;
SECTION 3
Obligations of the Depositor
CHAPTER 3
Necessary Deposit
TITLE XIII
ALEATORY CONTRACTS
General Provision
CHAPTER 2
Gambling
CHAPTER 3
Life Annuity
TITLE XIV
COMPROMISES AND ARBITRATIONS
CHAPTER 1
Compromises
CHAPTER 2
Arbitrations
TITLE XV
GUARANTY
CHAPTER 1
Nature and Extent of Guaranty
SECTION 1
Effects of Guaranty Between the Guarantor
and the Creditor
SECTION 3.
Effects of Guaranty as Between Co-
Guarantors
TITLE XVI
PLEDGE, MORTGAGE AND ANTICHRESIS
CHAPTER 1
Provisions Common to Pledge and Mortgage
CHAPTER 2
Pledge
The pledgee may also bid, but his offer shall not be
valid if he is the only bidder. (n)
CHAPTER 3
Mortgage
(1) Immovables;
CHAPTER 4
Antichresis
CHAPTER 5
Chattel Mortgage
TITLE XVII
EXTRA-CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS
CHAPTER 1
Quasi-contracts
SECTION 1
Negotiorum Gestio
SECTION 2
Solutio Indebiti
CHAPTER 2
Quasi-delicts
CHAPTER 1
General Provisions
(2) Moral;
(3) Nominal;
(5) Liquidated; or
CHAPTER 3
Other Kinds of Damages
SECTION 2
Nominal Damages
SECTION 4
Liquidated Damages
SECTION 5
Exemplary or Corrective Damages
TITLE XII
CONCURRENCE AND PREFERENCE OF CREDITS
CHAPTER 1
General Provisions
CHAPTER 3
Order of Preference of Credits
TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
REPEALING CLAUSE
Footnotes