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This document outlines a course syllabus for an Obligations and Contracts class at De La Salle University. The 3-unit course will cover topics related to obligations, contracts, and related legal concepts over 14 weeks. Students will be evaluated based on quizzes, recitations, midterms and a final exam. Upon completing the course, students are expected to understand basic legal concepts, their rights and obligations, and appreciate contract law in business.

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This document outlines a course syllabus for an Obligations and Contracts class at De La Salle University. The 3-unit course will cover topics related to obligations, contracts, and related legal concepts over 14 weeks. Students will be evaluated based on quizzes, recitations, midterms and a final exam. Upon completing the course, students are expected to understand basic legal concepts, their rights and obligations, and appreciate contract law in business.

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De La Salle University

COMMERCIAL LAW DEPARTMENT


College of Business and Economics
COURSE SYLLABUS

Course Title/Code: Obligations and Contracts (OBLICON)


Course Credit: 3 Units
Pre-requisites: None
Course Requirement: Quizzes, graded recitations,midterms, finals
Grading: The Final Grade shall be computed as follows:
Mid-term grade: 1/3 Second half: 1/3 Final exam: 1/3

Course Objectives: Upon the completion of this course, the student is expected to:
1. Understand the basic concepts and principles of law in general.
2. Know his rights and obligations in relation to his acts and omissions.
3. Appreciate the importance of contract law in business.
4. To realize the value of keeping contractual and legal obligations in the
development of a more socially responsible person.

Prescribed Textbook: De Leon, Hector S., The Law on Obligations and Contracts
 The student is encouraged to read works by other authors. For more extensive
discussions of the topics, the following authors also have commentaries for
Obligations and Contracts:

a. Arturo M. Tolentino: Commentaries and Jurisprudence on the Civil Code of the


Philippines, Vol. 4
b. Emil Jurado: Comments and Jurisprudence on Obligations and Contracts
(Jurado, 2002)

For e-copies of the provisions for Obligations and Contracts, the student may download
them from:

a. http://www.lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html
b. http://www.chanrobles.com/civilcodeofthephilippinesfulltext.html

If the student has a PDA, a compatible version of the Civil Code is found in this
searchable website:

http://www.memoware.com

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COURSE OUTLINE: Time-Frame/Week No.


TOPIC:
1. Articles 1156-1178 1-3
1.1 Orientation of basic legal concepts and fundamental principles of law
1.2 Concepts of law-its importance and development
1.3 Kinds of law-adjective and substantive; public and private
1.4 Concepts of person- judicial capacity and capacity to act
1.5 Obligation- definition and requisites
1.6 Natural and civil obligation
1.7 Sources of Obligation
1.8 Obligations to do, to give, and not to do
1.9 Effects of delay, fraud, negligence, contravention of tenor of obligation
1.10 Effects of fortuitous events

2. Articles 1179-1206 4
2.1 Kinds of obligations
2.2 Conditional obligations (nature, effect, liabilities)
2.3 Rules on loss, deterioration, and improvement
2.4 Alternative and Facultative Obligations
2.5 Obligations with a period
2.6 Obligations with a penal clause

3. Articles 1207-1230 5
3.1 Joint and solidary obligations
3.2 Divisibility and Solidarity
3.3 Rules on solidarity
3.4 Effects of payment, novation, etc
3.5 Defenses available for solidary debtors
3.6 Divisible and Indivisible Obligations

4. Articles 1231-1304 6-7


4.1 Modes of Extinguishment
4.2 Payment
1. How payment is made
2. By whom and to whom
3. effects
4.3 Application of payments
4.4 Cession
4.5 Tender of Payment and Consignation
4.6 Loss of thing due
4.7 Impossibility of performance
4.8 Condonation

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4.9 Confusion
4.10 Compensation
1. Requisites
2. Prohibitions
3. Rules
4.11 Novation
1. Kinds
2. Expromission and delegacion
3. Requisites
4. Legal subrogation
5. Convention subrogation

5. Articles 1305-1326 8
5.1 Contracts
5.2 Elements-stages
5.3 Classification and Characteristics
5.4 Real Rights
5.5 Unauthorized contracts
5.6 Requisites of contracts
5.7 consent: offer and acceptance
5.8 option
5.9 nature of business ads and bids

6. Articles 1327-1346 9
6.1 Persons who cannot give consent
6.2 Vices of consent
6.3 Expressions of opinion and exaggerations of trade
6.4 Simulated contracts

7. Articles 1347-1379 10
6.1 Cause or consideration
6.2 Motive
6.3 Want of cause, illegal causes, false cause, inadequacy of cause: effects
6.4 Forms of contracts
6.5 Reformation of Instruments
6.6 Interpretation of Contracts

8. Articles 1380-1422: Defective Contracts 11


6.1 Rescissible Contracts
6.2 Voidable contracts
6.3 Remedies: annulment vs. rescission
6.4 Unenforceable contracts
6.5 Void and inexistent contracts

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9. Articles 1423-2104 12
9.1 Natural obligations
9.2 Examples

10. Quasi-contracts 13
10.1 concept
10.2 common examples

11. Quasi-delicts
11.1 concepts
11.2 common examples
11.3 versus crimes

12. Damages (2201-2235) 14


12.1 Concept
12.2 Kinds and examples

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