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CIVIL CODE TEXT AND RELATED LAWS REPUBLIC ACT NO. 386 Article 15. Laws relating to family rights and duties, or to the status, condition and legal capacity of persons are...

CIVIL CODE TEXT AND RELATED LAWS REPUBLIC ACT NO. 386 Article 15. Laws relating to family rights and duties, or to the status, condition and legal capacity of persons are binding upon citizens of the Philippines, even though living abroad. (9a) AN ACT TO ORDAIN AND Article 16. Real property as well as personal property is INSTITUTE THE CIVIL CODE OF subject to the law of the country where it is stipulated. However, intestate and testamentary successions, both THE PHILIPPINES with respect to the order of succession and to the amount of successional rights and to the intrinsic validity of testamentary provisions, shall be regulated by the national law of the person whose succession is under PRELIMINARY TITLE consideration, whatever may be the nature of the property and regardless of the country wherein said property may be found. (10a) Article 17. The forms and solemnities of contracts, wills, CHAPTER 1 Effect and Application of Laws and other public instruments shall be governed by the laws of the country in which they are executed. Article 1. This Act shall be known as the "Civil Code of the Philippines." (n) When the acts referred to are executed before the diplomatic or consular officials of the Republic of the Article 2. Laws shall take effect after fifteen days Philippines in a foreign country, the solemnities following the completion of their publication in the established by Philippine laws shall be observed in their Official Gazette, unless it is otherwise provided. This Code execution. shall take effect one year after such publication. (1a) Prohibitive laws concerning persons, their acts or Article 3. Ignorance of the law excuses no one from property, and those which have for their object public compliance therewith. (2) order, public policy and good customs shall not be Article 4. Laws shall have no retroactive effect, unless the rendered ineffective by laws or judgments promulgated, contrary is provided. (3) or by determinations or conventions agreed upon in a foreign country. (11a) Article 5. Acts executed against the provisions of mandatory or prohibitory laws shall be void, except when Article 18. In matters which are governed by the Code of the law itself authorizes their validity. (4a) Commerce and special laws, their deficiency shall be supplied by the provisions of this Code. (16a) Article 6. Rights may be waived, unless the waiver is contrary to law, public order, public policy, morals, or good customs, or prejudicial to a third person with a right CHAPTER 2 Human Relations (n) recognized by law. (4a) Article 19. Every person must, in the exercise of his rights Article 7. Laws are repealed only by subsequent ones, and in the performance of his duties, act with justice, give and their violation or non-observance shall not be everyone his due, and observe honesty and good faith. excused by disuse, or custom or practice to the contrary. Article 20. Every person who, contrary to law, wilfully or When the courts declared a law to be inconsistent with negligently causes damage to another, shall indemnify the Constitution, the former shall be void and the latter the latter for the same. shall govern. Article 21. Any person who wilfully causes loss or injury to Administrative or executive acts, orders and regulations another in manner that is contrary to morals, good shall be valid only when they are not contrary to the laws customs or public policy shall compensate the latter for or the Constitution. (5a) the damage. Article 8. Judicial decisions applying or interpreting the Article 22. Every person who through an act of laws or the Constitution shall form a part of the legal performance by another, or any other means, acquires or system of the Philippines. (n) comes into possession of something at the expense of Article 9. No judge or court shall decline to render the latter without just or legal ground, shall return the judgment by reason of the silence, obscurity or same to him. insufficiency of the laws. (6) Article 23. Even when an act or event causing damage to Article 10. In case of doubt in the interpretation or another's property was not due to the fault or negligence application of laws, it is presumed that the lawmaking of the defendant, the latter shall be liable for indemnity if body intended right and justice to prevail. (n) through the act or event he was benefited. Article 11. Customs which are contrary to law, public order Article 24. In all contractual, property or other relations, or public policy shall not be countenanced. (n) when one of the parties is at a disadvantage on account of his moral dependence, ignorance, indigence, mental Article 12. A custom must be proved as a fact, according weakness, tender age or other handicap, the courts must to the rules of evidence. (n) be vigilant for his protection. Article 13. When the laws speak of years, months, days or Article 25. Thoughtless extravagance in expenses for nights, it shall be understood that years are of three pleasure or display during a period of acute public want hundred sixty-five days each; months, of thirty days; days, or emergency may be stopped by order of the courts at of twenty-four hours; and nights from sunset to sunrise. the instance of any government or private charitable If months are designated by their name, they shall be institution. computed by the number of days which they respectively Article 26. Every person shall respect the dignity, have. personality, privacy and peace of mind of his neighbors In computing a period, the first day shall be excluded, and other persons. The following and similar acts, though and the last day included. (7a) they may not constitute a criminal offense, shall produce a cause of action for damages, prevention and other Article 14. Penal laws and those of public security and relief: safety shall be obligatory upon all who live or sojourn in the Philippine territory, subject to the principles of public (1) Prying into the privacy of another's residence; international law and to treaty stipulations. (8a) (2) Meddling with or disturbing the private life or family relations of another; © Compiled by RGL 7 of 186