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NCC Art 1156 - 1168
NCC Art 1156 - 1168
Art. 1156. An obligation is a juridical necessity Art. 1163. Every person obliged to give
to give, to do or not to do. (n) something is also obliged to take care of it
with the proper diligence of a good father of a
Art. 1157. Obligations arise from: family, unless the law or the stipulation of the
(1) Law; parties requires another standard of care.
(2) Contracts; (1094a)
(3) Quasi-contracts; Art. 1164. The creditor has a right to the fruits
(4) Acts or omissions punished by law; and of the thing from the time the obligation to
(5) Quasi-delicts. (1089a) deliver it arises. However, he shall acquire no
Art. 1158. Obligations derived from law are real right over it until the same has been
not presumed. Only those expressly delivered to him. (1095)
determined in this Code or in special laws are
demandable, and shall be regulated by the Art. 1165. When what is to be delivered is a
precepts of the law which establishes them; determinate thing, the creditor, in addition to
and as to what has not been foreseen, by the the right granted him by Article 1170, may
provisions of this Book. (1090) compel the debtor to make the delivery.
Art. 1159. Obligations arising from contracts If the thing is indeterminate or generic, he
have the force of law between the contracting may ask that the obligation be complied with
parties and should be complied with in good at the expense of the debtor.
faith. (1091a)
If the obligor delays, or has promised to
Art. 1160. Obligations derived from quasi- deliver the same thing to two or more persons
contracts shall be subject to the provisions of who do not have the same interest, he shall
Chapter 1, Title XVII, of this Book. (n) be responsible for any fortuitous event until
he has effected the delivery. (1096)
Art. 1161. Civil obligations arising from
criminal offenses shall be governed by the Art. 1166. The obligation to give a
penal laws, subject to the provisions of Article determinate thing includes that of delivering
2177, and of the pertinent provisions of all its accessions and accessories, even though
Chapter 2, Preliminary Title, on Human they may not have been mentioned. (1097a)
Relations, and of Title XVIII of this Book,
Art. 1167. If a person obliged to do something
regulating damages. (1092a)
fails to do it, the same shall be executed at his
Art. 1162. Obligations derived from quasi- cost.
delicts shall be governed by the provisions of
Chapter 2, Title XVII of this Book, and by This same rule shall be observed if he does it
in contravention of the tenor of the
special laws. (1093a)
obligation. Furthermore, it may be decreed
that what has been poorly done be undone.
(1098)