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Where the delegator is a debtor of the delegatee and the delegatee's intention to discharge the delegator is expressly stated in the deed, the delegation constitutes novation. However, the delegator r…
Compensation is the simultaneous extinction of reciprocal obligations between two persons.It takes place, subject to being invoked, in due proportion, on the date when its conditions are met.
In the absence of provisions or agreements to the contrary, the judge shall settle conflicts of evidence in writing by determining by any means the most likely title.
Quasi-contracts are purely voluntary acts from which result an obligation on the part of the person who benefits from them without being entitled to do so, and sometimes an obligation on the part of t…
An obligation is conditional when it depends on a future and uncertain event. The condition is suspensive when its fulfilment renders the obligation pure and simple. It is resolutory when its fulfilme…
An obligation is optional where it has as its object a certain performance but the debtor has the option, in order to be discharged, of providing another. The optional obligation is extinguished if pe…
Solidarity is legal or contractual; it cannot be presumed.
An obligation is an alternative obligation when it covers several services and the performance of one of them releases the debtor.
A creditor who receives payment from one of the joint and several debtors and grants him a remission of joint and several liability retains his claim against the others, after deduction of the share o…
Res judicata applies only to what is the subject of the judgment. The thing sought must be the same; the claim must be based on the same cause of action; the claim must be between the same parties, an…
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