CODAL Chapter 1 Effect and Application of Laws

Question 1

Article 1

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Answer 1

This act shall be known as the Civil Code of the Philippines

Question 2

Article 2

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Answer 2

Laws shall take effect fifteen days after their first publication in the Official Gazette or a newspaper of general circulation, unless otherwise provided. (As amended by Exec Order 200)

Question 3

Article 3

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Answer 3

Ignorance of the law excuses no one from compliance therewith

Question 4

Article 4

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Answer 4

Laws shall have no retroactive effect, unless the contrary is provided.

Question 5

Article 5

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Answer 5

Article 5

Acts executed against prohibitory or mandatory laws shall be void except when the law itself authorizes their validity.

Question 6

Article 6

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Answer 6

Rights may be waived, unless the waiver is contrary to law, public order, public policy, morals, good customs, or prejudicial to a third person with a right recognized by the law.

Question 7

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Answer 7

1. Laws are repealed only by subsequent ones, and their violation or non-observance shall not be excused by disuse, custom or practice to the contrary.
2. When courts declare a law inconsistent with the Constitution, the former shall be and the latter shall govern.
3. Administrative or executive acts, orders or regulations shall be valid only when they are not contrary to laws or the Constitution.

Question 8

Article 8

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Answer 8

Judicial decisions applying or interpreting the laws or the Constitution shall form part of the legal system of the Philippines.

Question 9

Article 9

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Answer 9

No judge or court shall decline to render judgement by reason of the silence, obscurity or insufficiency of the laws.

Question 10

Article 10

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Answer 10

In case of doubt in the interpretation and application of the laws, it is presumed that the lawmaking body inTENded right and justice to prevail.

Question 11

Article 11

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Answer 11

Customs contrary to the law, public order or public policy shall not be countenanced.

Question 12

Article 12

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Answer 12

A custom must be proved as a fact, according to the rules of evidence.

Question 13

Article 13 drum Friday the 13
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Answer 13

Par 1. When the laws speak of year, months, days and nights, it shall be understood that years are 365 days each, months, 30 days, and days, 24 hours.
Par 2. If months are designated by their names, they shall be counted by the number of days they respectively have.
Par 3. In computing periods, the first day shall be excluded and the last day included.

Question 14

Article 14

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Answer 14

Penal laws and those of public security are obligatory upon all who live and sojourn within Philippine territory, subject to principles of public international law and treaty stipulations.

Question 15

Article 15

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Answer 15

Laws relating to family rights and duties, and to the status, condition or legal capacity of persons, are binding upon all citizens of the Philippines, even though living abroad.

Question 16

Article 16
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Answer 16

Par. 1: Real property and personal property are subject to the law of the country where it is situated.
Par 2: However, intestate and testamentary successions, both with respect to the order of succession and the amount of successional rights, and to the intrinsic validity of the testamentary provisions, shall be regulated by the national law of the person whose succession is under consideration, whatever may be the nature or the property and regardless of where the said property may be found.

Question 17

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Answer 17

Par 1: The forms and solemnities of contracts, wills and public documents shall be governed by the laws of they country in which they are executed.

Par 2. When those acts referred are executed before a diplomatic or consular official of the Philippines in a foreign country, the solemnities established by Philippines laws shall be observed in their execution.

Par 3. Prohibitive laws concerning persons, their acts or properties, and those which have for their object public order, public policy and good customs shall not be rendered ineffective by the laws and judgements promulgate or the determinations and conventions agreed upon in a foreign country.

Question 18

Article 18

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Answer 18

In matters which are governed by the Code of Commerce and special laws, their deficiencies shall be supplied by the provisions of this code.