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PLEDGE
understanding that when the obligation is fulfilled,
(ARTICLES 2085-2123) the
thing delivered shall be returned with all its fruits
PROVISIONS COMMON TO PLEDGE AND MORTGAGE
and accessions
Art. 2085. The following requisites are essential to t
KINDS OF PLEDGE
he contracts of pledge and mortgage:
1. Voluntary or conventional
(1) That they be constituted to secure the fulfillment of 2. Legal
a principal obligation;
REQUISITES TO A CONTRACT OF PLEDGE
(2) That the pledgor or mortgagor be the absolute 1. It be constituted to secure the fulfillment of a p
owner of the thing pledged or mortgaged; rincipal obligation
2. The pledgor be the absolute owner of the thing
(3) That the persons constituting the pledge or pledged
mortgage have the free disposal of their property, 3. That the persons constituting the pledge have t
and in the absence thereof, that they be legally he free
authorized for the purpose. disposal of the property and in the absence thereof
, that they be legally authorized for the purpose
Third persons who are not parties to the principal 4. The pledge is perfected by the delivery of the th
obligation may secure the latter by pledging or ing pledged
mortgaging their own property. (1857) 5. When the principal obligation becomes due, the
things,
Art. 2086. The provisions of Article 2052 are applicable which the pledge consists, may be alienated for the
to a pledge or mortgage. (n) payment of the creditor.
1. Attorney in fact
From these provisions is expected the case in
2. Option contract. There would be another
which, there being several things given in
contract. There is a risk of the courts to look at it as a
mortgage or pledge, each one of them guarantees
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only a determinate portion of the credit.
3. Dacion en pago
4. Assigned shares. Creditor would only have legal The debtor, in this case, shall have a right
title and pledgor would still have beneficial ownership. to the extinguishment of the pledge or mortgage
as the portion of
the debt for which each thing is specially answ
RISK OF LOSS OF PROPERTY erable is satisfied. (1860)
FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE CO
NSTITUTED ON SEVERAL
PROPERTIES
> A mortgage even constituted on several
properties is one
and indivisible, that is, it cannot be divided am
ong the several properties and the mortgagee has
the right to have
the properties either or both, jointly or singly,
sold to satisfy his claim
>
Further, the sale of the mortgaged properties c
annot be set aside in the absence of evidence to
show that a better
price could have been obtained if they were
sold
separately, or the sale of one or some alone w
ould bring sufficient proceeds to satisfy the
mortgage credit