UNIVERSITY OF CAGAYAN VALLEY
COLLEGE OF LAW
OBLIGATIONS & CONTRACTS SYLLABUS & COURSE OUTLINE
Code JD102 – SY 2024-2025, 2ND SEMESTER
ATTY. MARIA MILAGROS N. FERNAN-CAYOSA
Dean
Academic Calendar: Start of Classes – January 20, 2025
End of Classes – May 31, 2025
Midterm Exams – March 16-21, 2025
Final Exams – June 6, 2025
Course Description: An in-depth study of the nature, kinds and effect of obligations and their
extinguishment; contracts in general, their requisites, form and interpretation; defective contracts, quasi
contracts, natural obligations, and estoppel. The course also covers civil code provisions on Sales as a
special contract; the application of provisions of contracts and obligations in contract of sales and the
special rules under Art.1458-1637 which are applicable to sales only. The course is an enhancement of the
previous Obligations and Contracts course through the integration of the basics of the law on sales.
Class Schedule: Wednesdays 6-8 p.m. Fridays 6-9p.m.
Grading System: Finals 40%
Midterms 40%
Class Standing, Recitation 10%
Digests, Quizzes 10%
REFERENCES & SOURCES
Paras, Justice Edgardo (2021). Civil Code of the Philippines Annotated. Prescription: Obligations
and Contracts (Vol. IV). Rex Book Store.
INTRODUCTION January 31, 2023
THE DIFFERENT TITLES UNDER LAW
1. Political and Public International Law
2. Labor Law and Social Legislation
3. Taxation
4. Commercial Law
5. Criminal Law
6. Remedial Law
7. Legal and Judicial Ethics
8. Civil Law
CIVIL LAW
Civil Law refers to that body of laws that deal with the status, rights and obligations, relationships
of natural persons with the State and with each other. It deals with such areas such as legal
personality, abuse of rights, marriages, legal separation, nullity of marriage, filiation, property
regimes between spouses, support, adoption, succession, property, obligations and contracts,
special contracts and the like.
THE CIVIL CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES
Book I - Persons (and Family Relations) – Executive Order No. 209 Family Code
Book II – Property, Ownership and its Modification
Book III – Different Modes of Acquiring Ownership
Succession, Special Contracts (Agency, Credit Transactions, Partnership)
Book IV - Obligations and Contracts
Torts and Damages
COURSE OUTLINE
OBLIGATIONS AND CONTRACTS, NATURAL OBLIGATIONS, ESTOPPEL, TRUSTS ; PRESCRIPTION
(Articles 1106-1637, Civil Code of the Philippines)
I. OBLIGATIONS (Articles 1156-1304) February 5-24, 2025
1. General Provisions
2. Nature and Effects of Obligations
3. Different Kinds of Obligations February 5-7, 2023
a. Pure and Conditional Obligations
b. Obligations with a Period
c. Alternative Obligations
d. Joint and Solidary Obligations
e. Divisible and Indivisible Obligations March 7, 2023
f. Obligations with a Penal Clause
QUIZ February 12, 2025
Cases on Love and Obligations: February 14, 2025
(1) CHUA-QUA VS. HON. JACOBO C. CLAVE, G.R. No. 49549 August 30, 1990
(2) PADILLA-RUMBAUA vs. EDWARD RUMBUAO G.R. No. 166738, August 14, 2009
(3) COJUANGCO, JR. VS. ATTY. LEO J. PALMA, Adm. Case No. 2474, September 15, 2004
(4) GUEVARRA vs. EALA, A.C. No. 7136, 1 August 2007
(5)
4. Extinguishment of Obligations February 12,
a. Payment or Performance
(1) Application of Payments
(2) Payment by Cession
(3) Tender of Payment and Consignation
b. Loss of the Thing Due March 10, 2023
c. Condonation or Remission of Debt
d. Confusion or Merger of Rights March 14, 2023
e. Compensation
f. Novation
END COVERAGE OF MIDTERMS – March 21, 2023, 6:00-8:00 P.M.
BEGINNING AND ARTICLES 1156 to 1304, Civil Code
