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I. THE 1987 CONSTITUTION

A. Nature and Concept of a Constitution

B. Amendments and Revisions

II. BASIC CONCEPTS

A. Declaration of Principles and State Policies

B. Sovereignty

C. State Immunity

D. Separation of Powers

E. Checks and Balances

F. Delegation of Powers

G. Fundamental Powers of the State

1. Police Power

2. Eminent Domain

3. Taxation

III. NATIONAL TERRITORY

A. Scope (Terrestrial, Aerial, and Fluvial Domains)

B. Archipelagic Doctrine

C. Maritime Zones

IV. CONSTITUTIONAL COMMISSIONS

A. Constitutional Safeguards to Ensure Independence

B. Common Provisions

C. Powers, Functions, and Jurisdiction

D. Composition and Qualifications of Members

E. Prohibited Offices and Interests

F. Judicial Review of Final Orders, Resolutions, and Decisions

G. Rendered in the Exercise of Quasi-Judicial Functions

H. Rendered in the Exercise of Administrative Functions

V. CITIZENSHIP

A. Who are Filipinos

B. Modes of Acquiring Citizenship

C. Natural Born and Naturalized Citizens

D. Loss and Re-acquisition of Philippine Citizenship

1. Republic Act (R.A.) No. 9225 or the Citizenship Retention and Re-acquisition Act of 2003

E. Dual Citizenship and Dual Allegiance

VI. EDUCATION, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ARTS, CULTURE, AND SPORTS

A. Academic Freedom

VII. NATIONAL ECONOMY AND PATRIMONY

A. Regalian Doctrine

B. Public Trust Doctrine

1. R.A. No. 11659 or the New Public Services Act

C. Nationalist and Citizenship Requirement Provisions

D. Exploration, Development, and Utilization of Natural Resources

E. Acquisition, Ownership, and Transfer of Public and Private Lands

VIII. LAW ON PUBLIC OFFICERS

A. General Principles

B. Modes of Acquiring Title to Public Office

C. Modes and Kinds of Appointment

D. Eligibility and Qualification Requirements

E. Disabilities and Inhibitions of Public Officers

F. Powers and Duties of Public Officers

G. Rights of Public Officers

H. Liabilities of Public Officers

1. Preventive Suspension and Back Salaries

2. Illegal Dismissal, Reinstatement, and Back Salaries

I. Immunity of Public Officers

J. De Facto and De Jure Officers

K. Termination of Official Relation

L. The Civil Service

1. Scope

2. Appointments to the Civil Service

3. Personnel Actions

M. Accountability of Public Officers

1. Types of Accountability

a. Administrative

b. Criminal

c. Civil

2. Discipline

a. Grounds

b. Jurisdiction

c. Dismissal, Preventive Suspension, Reinstatement, and Back Salaries

d. Condonation Doctrine

3. Impeachment and Quo Warranto

4. The Ombudsman and the Office of the Special Prosecutor under Article XI of the 1987 Constitution in relation to R.A. No. 6770 or the Ombudsman Act of 1989

a. Functions

b. Judicial Review in Administrative Proceedings

c. Judicial Review in Penal Proceedings

5. The Sandiganbayan

N. Term Limits

IX. LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT

A. Legislative power

1. Scope and Limitations

2. Principle of Non-delegability; Exceptions

3. Initiative and Referendum

B. Chambers of Congress; Composition; Qualifications

1. Senate

2. House of Representatives

a. District Representatives and Questions of Apportionment

b. Party-List System

C. Declaration of the Existence of a State of War

D. Legislative Privileges, Inhibitions, and Disqualifications

E. Quorum and Voting Majorities

F. Discipline of Members

G. Law-making process

H. Electoral Tribunals and the Commission on Appointments

1. Nature

2. Powers

I. Powers of Congress

1. Legislative Inquiries and Oversight Functions

2. Power of Impeachment

3. Limitations on Legislative Power

4. Limitations on Revenue, Appropriations, and Tariff

5. Presidential Veto and Congressional Override

6. Rules on Appropriation and Realignment

XII. THE BILL OF RIGHTS

A. Private Acts and the Bill of Rights

B. Due Process

1. Procedural and Substantive

2. Void-for-Vagueness

3. Judicial and Administrative Due Process

C. Equal Protection

1. Requisites for Valid Classification

2. Standards of Judicial Review

a. Rational Basis Test

b. Strict Scrutiny Test

c. Intermediate Scrutiny Test

D. Arrests, Searches, and Seizures

1. Requisites of a Valid Warrant

2. Warrantless Arrests and Searches

3. Exclusionary Rule

E. Privacy of Communications and Correspondence

1. R.A. No. 10173 or the Data Privacy Act

2. Exclusionary Rule

F. Freedom of Speech and Expression

1. Prior Restraint and Subsequent Punishment

2. Content-Based and Content-Neutral Regulations

3. Facial Challenges and Overbreadth Doctrine

4. Tests to Determine the Validity of Governmental Regulation

5. State Regulation of Different Types of Mass Media

6. Commercial Speech

7. Unprotected Speech; Libel and Hate Speech

8. Obscenity and Pornography

9. Privileged Communication

G. Freedom of Religion

1. Non-Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses

2. Separation of Church and State

3. Benevolent Neutrality and Conscientious Objector

4. Tests to Determine the Validity of Governmental Regulation

a. Clear and Present Danger

b. Compelling State Interest

H. Liberty of Abode and Right to Travel

1. Scope and Limitations

2. Watch-List and Hold Departure Orders

I. Right to Information

1. Executive Order No. 2, s. 2016 or Freedom of Information

2. R.A. No. 11032 or the Ease of Doing Business Act

J. Eminent Domain

1. Concept

2. Public Use

3. Just Compensation

4. Expropriation by LGUs

K. Right to Association

L. Non-Impairment of Contracts

M. Free Access to Courts and Adequate Legal Assistance

N. Custodial Investigation

1. Requisites of a Valid Waiver and the Exclusionary Rule

2. The Rights of Persons Arrested, Detained or Under Custodial Investigation under R.A. No. 7438

O. Rights of the Accused

1. Criminal Due Process

2. Bail

3. Presumption of Innocence

4. Right to Counsel

5. Trial in Absentia

P. Right to Speedy Trial and Speedy Disposition of Cases

Q. Right Against Self-incrimination

1. Scope and Limitations

2. Immunity Statutes

R. Right Against Double Jeopardy

S. Right Against Involuntary Servitude

T. Right Against Excessive Fines, and Cruel and Inhuman Punishments

U. Non-imprisonment for Debts

V. Ex Post Facto Laws and Bills of Attainder

W. Writs of Habeas Corpus, Kalikasan, Habeas Data, and Amparo

XVI. PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW

A. Concepts

B. Relationship Between International and Philippine Domestic Law

C. Sources of International Law

1. International Court of Justice Statute

2. Effect of United Nations Declarations, Security Council Resolutions

3. Effect of Actions of Organs of International Organizations Created by Treaty

D. Subjects of International Law

1. States

2. International Organizations

3. Individuals

4. Others

E. Jurisdiction of States

1. Basis of Jurisdiction

a. Territoriality Principle

b. Nationality Principle and Statelessness

c. Protective Principle

d. Universality Principle

e. Passive Personality Principle

2. Exemptions from Jurisdiction

a. Act of State Doctrine

b. International Organizations and their Officers

c. Diplomatic and Consular Law

F. Nationality and Statelessness

G. General Principles of Treaty Law

H. Doctrine of State Responsibility

I. Refugees

J. Treatment of Aliens

1. Extradition

a. Fundamental Principles

b. Procedure

c. Distinguished from Deportation

K. International Human Rights Law

1. Universal Declaration of Human Rights

2. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

3. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

L. International Humanitarian Law

1. Categories of Armed Conflicts

a. International Armed Conflicts

b. Internal or Non-international Armed Conflict

c. War of National Liberation

d. Dispute Resolution

2. War Crimes, Genocide, and Other Crimes Against Humanity

3. The Role of the International Criminal Court

M. Judicial and Arbitral Settlement

1. International Court of Justice

2. Permanent Court of Arbitration

3. Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes

4. Use of Force Short of War

5. War and Neutrality

a. Treatment of Civilians

b. Prisoners of War

N. Law of the Sea

1. International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

2. Freedom of Navigation

3. Maritime and Territorial Disputes

O. International Environmental Law

1. Principle 21 of Stockholm Declaration

2. Precautionary Principle

XVII. STRATEGIC PLAN FOR JUDICIAL INNOVATIONS 2022- 2027

A. Challenges

B. Four Guiding Principles

C. Three Outcomes and Activities


 
 

I. BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

Republic Act No. 11232

A. Corporations

1. General Principles

a. Nature and Attributes

b. Nationality of Corporations

i. Control Test

ii. Grandfather Rule

c. Doctrine of Separate Juridical Personality

d. Doctrine of Piercing the Corporate Veil

e. Trust Fund Doctrine

2. Kinds of Corporation

a. Stock Corporation

b. Non-Stock Corporation

c. Close Corporation

d. Educational Corporations

e. Religious Corporation

f. One Person Corporation

3. Incorporation and Organization

a. Number and Qualifications of Incorporators

b. Capitalization

c. Corporate Term

d. Classification of Shares

e. Articles of Incorporation, Corporate Name, and Commencement of Corporate Existence

f. By-Laws

g. Corporate Officers

h. De Facto Corporation

i. Corporation by Estoppel

4. Directors, Trustees, and Officers

a. Qualifications and Disqualifications

b. Elections

c. Independent Directors

d. Term, Holdover, and Removal

e. Vacancy

f. Voting Requirements

g. Duties, Liability, and Dealings of Directors

h. Doctrine of Centralized Management

i. Business Judgment Rule

j. Doctrine of Apparent Authority

k. Doctrine of Ratification or Estoppel

5. Powers of Corporations; Incidental Powers; Ultra Vires Doctrine

6. Stockholders and Members

a. Doctrine of Equality of Shares

b. Participation in Management; Voting Requirements

c. Proprietary Rights

i. Right to Dividends

ii. Right to Inspection

iii. Pre-emptive Right

iv. Appraisal Right

d. Derivative Suit; Intra-corporate Suit

e. Delinquency

f. Certificate of Stock

7. Mergers, Consolidations, and Acquisitions

a. Asset Only Transfer

b. Business Enterprise Transfer

8. Corporate Dissolution and Liquidation

9. Foreign Corporations

a. Personality to Sue and Suability

b. Republic Act (R.A.) No. 7042, as amended by R.A. Nos. 8179 and 11647 or the Foreign Investments Act

i. “Doing Business in the Philippines”

ii. Registration Requirement

iii. Nationalized Activities and the Negative List

B. Partnerships

1. General Provisions

a. Definition and Separate Juridical Personality

b. Rules to Determine Existence

c. Separate Juridical Personality

d. Partnership by Estoppel

e. Kinds of Partnership

2. Obligations of Partners among Themselves

3. Property Rights of Partners

4. Obligations of Partnership; Obligations of Partners to Third Persons

5. Dissolution and Winding Up

II. INSURANCE

Presidential Decree No.612, as amended by Republic Act No.10607

A. Concept of Insurance

B. Insurable Interest

C. Concealment

D. Representation

E. Policy

F. Warranties

G. Premium

H. Loss

I. Notice and Proof of Loss

J. Double Insurance; Overinsurance

K. Reinsurance

III. TRANSPORTATION

Civil Code

A. General Principles of Common Carriers

1. Common Carrier vs. Private Carrier

2. Diligence Required

3. Vigilance over Goods

4. Safety of Passengers

IV. BANKING

A. Secrecy of Bank Deposits (R.A. No.1405 and R.A. No.6426, as amended)

1. Prohibited Acts

2. Exceptions from Coverage

3. Garnishment of Deposits, including Foreign Deposits

B. General Banking Law (R.A. No.8791)

1. Nature of Bank Funds and Bank Deposits

2. Required Diligence of Banks

3. Prohibited Transactions by Bank Directors, Officers, and Employees

C. Philippine Deposit Insurance Corporation (R.A. No.3591, as amended by R.A. Nos.9576, 10846, and 11840)

1. Definition of Insured Deposit

2. Deposit Insurance Coverage

3. Splitting of Deposits

D. Anti-Money Laundering Act (R.A. No.9160, as amended by R.A. Nos.9194, 10167, 10365, 10927, and 11521)

1. Policy

2. Covered Institutions and their Obligations

3. Covered Transactions

4. Suspicious Transactions

5. Safe Harbor Provision

6. Money Laundering

a. How Committed

b. Predicate Crimes/Unlawful Activity

7. Authority to Inquire, Freezing, and Forfeiture

V. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Republic Act No.8293, as amended

A. Patents

1. Patentable vs. Non-patentable Inventions

2. Ownership of a Patent

3. Rights and Limitations of Patent Owner

4. Patent Infringement

5. Cancellation

B. Trademarks

1. Marks vs. Collective Marks vs. Trade Names

2. Non-Registrable Marks

3. Ownership, Registration, and Duration

C. Copyrights

1. Copyrightable Works

2. Non-Copyrightable Works

3. Rights Conferred by Copyright

4. Ownership of a Copyright

5. Limitations on Copyright

6. Copyright Infringement

VI. SECURED TRANSACTIONS

A. R.A. No.11057 or the Personal Property Security Act

1. Definitions and Scope

2. Creation of Security Interest

3. Perfection of Security Interest

a. Registration

b. Possession

c. Control

VII. OTHER SPECIAL LAWS AND RULES

A. R.A. No.10142 or the Financial Rehabilitation and Insolvency Act

1. Definition of Insolvent

2. Rehabilitation

a. Key Concepts

b. Effects of Commencement Order and Exceptions

c. Cram Down Effect

3. Liquidation and Effects of Liquidation Order

4. Suspension of Payments

B. R.A. No.10173 or the Data Privacy Act

1. Personal vs. Sensitive Personal Information

2. Scope

3. Processing of Personal and Sensitive Personal Information; Lawful Basis

4. General Data Privacy Principles

5. Rights of Data Subject

C. R.A. No.8792 or the Electronic Commerce Act

1. Legal Recognition of Electronic Data Messages, Documents, and Signatures

2. Lawful Access and Obligation of Confidentiality

D. Commonwealth Act No.146 as amended by R.A. No.11659 or the Public Service Act

VIII. TAXATION LAW

A. General Principles

1. Concept and Definition of Taxation

2. Inherent and Constitutional Limitations of Taxation

3. Requisites of a Valid Tax

4. Lifeblood Doctrine; Manifestations; Prohibition on Compensation and Set-off, Impact, Effect

5. Authority of Congress, Secretary of Finance, Commissioner of Internal Revenue (CIR)

6. Construction and Interpretation of Tax Laws, Rules, and Regulations

7. Double Taxation

a. Direct Duplicate Taxation

b. Indirect Duplicate Taxation

c. Mitigants

i. Tax Exemption

ii. Tax Credit

iii. Tax Deduction

iv. Tax Discount

v. Reciprocity Principle

8. Escape from Taxation

a. Shifting of Tax Burden

b. Tax Avoidance

c. Tax Evasion

9. Tax Exemption

a. Nature – Exempt Person vs. Exempt Transaction

b. Express or Implied

c. Contractual

d. Construction of Tax Exemption Laws

e. Revocation

10. Compromise and Tax Amnesty

11. Taxpayer’s Suit: Rationale and Requisites

B. National Internal Revenue Code of 1997 (NIRC), as amended by R.A. No. 10963, or the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) Law Taxes and R.A. No. 11976 or the Ease of Paying Taxes Act

1. Income Tax

a. Nature and General Principles

i. Criteria in Imposing Philippine Income Tax

ii. Types of Philippine Income Taxes

iii. Kinds of Taxpayers – Individual, Corporations, Trusts, Estate

(a) Individual vs. Corporate Income Taxation – Schedular vs. Flat Rate

(b) Income Tax on Special Corporations

b. Income

i. Definition

ii. Realization and Recognition of Income

iii. Taxability of Income

iv. Income Sources

(a) Compensation Income

(b) Professional Income

(c) Income from Business

(1) Active vs. Passive Income

(d) Income from Dealings in Property

(1) Capital vs. Ordinary Asset

(e) Situs of Income Taxation

(f) Gross Income vs. Net Income vs. Taxable Income

(1) Tax Deductions vs. Tax Credits

(2) Optional Standard Deduction

(g) Withholding Taxes

(1) Rationale

(2) Creditable vs. Withholding Taxes

(3) Duties of a Withholding Agent

2. Value-Added Tax (VAT)

a. Concept and Elements of VATable Transactions

b. Impact and Incidence of Tax

c. Destination Principle; Cross-Border Doctrine

d. Transactions Deemed Sale Subject to VAT

e. Zero-Rated Transactions

f. VAT Exempt Persons vs. VAT Exempt Transactions

g. Input and Output Tax

h. Tax Refund or Tax Credit

3. Tax Remedies

a. General Concepts

i. Tax Deficiency vs. Tax Delinquency

ii. Tax Evasion

b. Civil Penalties

i. Deficiency Interest and Delinquency Interest

ii. Surcharge

iii. Compromise Penalty

c. Assessment Process

i. Letter of Authority

ii. Submission of Supporting Documents by taxpayer

iii. Notice of Discrepancy

iv. Issuance of Preliminary Assessment Notice

v. Issuance of Formal letter of Demand/Final Assessment Notice

a. Prescriptive Period for Assessment

(1) False Returns vs. Fraudulent Returns vs. Non Filing Returns

b. Suspension of the Running of Statute of Limitations

d. Collection Process

i. Requisites

ii. Prescriptive Periods

e. Taxpayers Remedies

i. Protesting an Assessment

a. Period to File Protest

b. Effect of Failure to File Protest

ii. Submission of Supporting Documents by Taxpayer

iii. Decision of the Commissioner on the Protest

a. Period to Act Upon or Decide on Protest Filed

b. Remedies of the Taxpayer in case the CIR Denies the Protest or Fails to Act on the Protest

c. Effect of Failure to Appeal

iv. Compromise and Abatement of Taxes

v. Recovery of Tax Erroneously or Illegally Collected

a. Grounds, Requisites, and Period for Filing a Claim for Refund or Issuance of a Tax Credit Certificate

b. Proper Party to File Claim for Refund or Tax Credit

f. Government Remedies

i. Administrative Remedies

a. Tax Lien

b. Distraint and Levy

c. Forfeiture of Real Property

d. Suspension of Business Operation

ii. Judicial Remedies

a. Civil Action

b. Criminal Action

c. Non-Availability of Injunction on Collection

IX. STRATEGIC PLAN FOR JUDICIAL INNOVATIONS 2022-2027

A. Challenges

B. Four Guiding Principles

C. Three Outcomes and Activities


 
 

I. PRELIMINARY TITLE

A. Effect and Application of Laws

1. When Laws Take Effect

2. Ignorance of the Law

3. Instances when laws are given retroactive effect by way of exception

4. Nullity of acts committed in violation of mandatory or prohibitory laws; Exceptions

5. Waiver

6. Void Laws

a. Exception posed by the Doctrine of Operative Fact

7. Judicial Decisions

a. Stare Decisis

i. Kinds of Stare Decisis

ii. Prospective Application of Doctrines; Exception

8. Computation of Periods

a. Section 31, Chapter VIII, Book I of the Revised Administrative Code of 1987

9. Principle of generality of criminal law

10. Conflict of Laws

a. Lex Nationalii

b. Lex Rei Sitae

c. Lex Loci Celebrationis

B. Human Relations

1. Abuse of Right

2. Unjust Enrichment

3. Tortious Interference

4. Accion in rem verso

II. PERSONS

A. Juridical capacity

1. Acquisition of personality

a. Natural persons

b. Juridical persons

i. Sections 2, 4 and 18 of Republic Act (R.A.) No. 11232

B. Capacity to Act

1. Presumption of capacity to act

2. Acquisition of Capacity to Act – R.A. No. 6809

C. Restrictions on capacity to act

1. Further restrictions on capacity to act arising from minority – R.A. No. 11596

III. FAMILY CODE

Executive Order No. 209

A. Marriage

1. General Principles

a. State Policy on Marriage

b. Essential and Formal Requisites of Marriage

c. Effects of Absence, Defect or Irregularity of the Requisites

d. Rights and Obligations Between Husband and Wife

2. Validity of Marriages Celebrated Abroad

a. Grounds available to have marriages celebrated abroad declared null and void in the Philippines;

b. Relevance of the nationality of the parties in relation to the available grounds for declaration of nullity of mixed marriages in the Philippines

3. Mixed Marriages and Foreign Divorce

a. See Republic v. Manalo, 831 Phil. 33 (2018)

4. Void Marriages

a. Different Grounds for Nullity

i. See also R.A. No. 11596 and Tan-Andal v. Andal, G.R. No. 196359, May 11, 2021

b. Legal standing to file a petition for declaration of nullity

c. Collateral attack to assail validity of a marriage

d. Legal Consequences of Declaring a Marriage as Null and Void

5. Voidable Marriages

a. Grounds

b. Defenses

c. Legal Consequences of Annulment of Marriage

6. Legal Separation

a. Grounds

b. Defenses

c. Legal Consequences of Legal Separation

d. Effects of Reconciliation

7. Property Relations Between the Spouses

a. Ante-Nuptial Agreements or Marriage Settlements

b. Donation Propter Nuptias

c. Different Property Regimes

i. Absolute Community of Property Regime

ii. Conjugal Partnership of Gains Regime

iii. Complete Separation of Property Regime or Judicial Separation of Property

d. Rules Common to Both Absolute Community of Property and Conjugal Partnership of Gains

e. Property Regime of Unions Without Marriage

8. Paternity and Filiation

a. Concepts of Paternity, Filiation, and Legitimacy

b. Legitimate Children

i. Who are Legitimate Children

ii. Proof and period to establish legitimate filiation

iii. Rights of Legitimate Children

iv. Standing to Impugn Legitimacy

v. Grounds to Impugn Legitimacy

vi. Prescriptive periods to impugn legitimacy

c. Illegitimate Children

i. Who are Illegitimate Children

ii. Proof of Filiation of Illegitimate Children

iii. Rights of Illegitimate Children – R.A. No. 9255

iv. Grounds to Impugn Filiation

d. Legitimated Children

i. Who May be Legitimated - R.A. No. 9858

ii. How Legitimation Takes Place

iii. Grounds to Impugn Legitimacy

e. Adopted Children - R.A. No. 11642 or the Domestic Administrative Adoption and Alternative Child Care Act

i. Who May Adopt

ii. Who May be Adopted

iii. Administrative Process of Adoption

iv. Effects of Adoption

v. Rescission of Adoption

vi. See R.A. No. 11222

vii. Foundlings; Citizenship Status and Administrative Adoption of Foundlings under R.A. No. 11767

9. Support

a. What Comprises Support

b. Who are Obliged to Give Support

c. Source of Support

d. Order of Support

10. Parental Authority

a. Concept of Parental Authority

b. Substitute Parental Authority

c. Special Parental Authority

d. Effects of Parental Authority

IV. CIVIL REGISTER

A. Correction of Entries in the Civil Register

1. Rule 108, Rules of Court

2. R.A. No. 9048 as amended by R.A. No. 10172

3. R.A. No. 11909

B. Proscription against collateral attack on a person’s status via correction of entries in the civil register

V. OBLIGATIONS AND CONTRACTS

A. Obligations

1. Civil and Natural Obligations

2. General Provisions

a. Definition

b. Essential Elements

c. Sources of Obligation

3. Nature and Effects of Obligations

a. Breaches of Obligations

b. Remedies for Breach of Obligations

c. Defense of Fortuitous Event

4. Different Kinds of Obligations

a. Pure

b. Conditional; Kinds of Conditions

c. With a Period

d. Alternative Obligations

e. Joint and Solidary Obligations

f. Divisible and Indivisible Obligations

g. Obligations with a Penal Clause

5. Extinguishment of Obligations

a. Payment

i. Concept of Payment

ii. Capacity and/or Identity of Payor or Payee

iii. Special Forms of Payment

b. Loss of the Thing Due

i. Concept of Loss

ii. Requisites

iii. Effect of Loss on an Obligation

iv. Presumption of Loss

v. Principle of Rebus Sic Stantibus as applied to obligations

c. Condonation

d. Confusion

e. Compensation

i. Requisites

ii. Effect of Assignment of Credit on right to invoke compensation

iii. Non-Compensable Debts

f. Novation

i. Concept of Novation

ii. Express and Implied Novation

iii. Expromision and Delegacion Distinguished

(a) Consent Required

(b) Effect of Insolvency of New Debtor

iv. Legal and Conventional Subrogation

6. Estoppel

B. Contracts

1. General Provisions

a. Definition of a Contract

b. Elements of a Contract

i. Essential Elements

ii. Natural Elements

2. Basic Principles of Contracts

a. Obligatory Force of a Contract

b. Freedom to Stipulate (Autonomy of the Will) and its Limitations

c. Relativity

i. Concept

ii. Exceptions to the Rule on Privity of Contracts

d. Consensuality of Contracts

i. Concept and Coverage

ii. Exceptions

iii. Reformation of Instruments

e. Mutuality of Contracts

3. Real vs. Consensual Contracts

4. Form, Reformation, and Interpretation of Contracts

5. Defective Contracts

a. Rescissible Contracts

b. Voidable Contracts

c. Unenforceable Contracts

d. Void Contracts

VI. WILLS AND SUCCESSION

A. Succession

1. Definition

2. Elements of Succession

a. Death

b. Inheritance

i. Property

ii. Rights

iii. Obligations

iv. Extent of a Person’s Liability for an Inherited Obligation

c. Successors

i. Heirs

ii. Voluntary Heirs

iii. Compulsory Heirs

iv. Intestate Heirs

v. Legatees and Devisees

d. Acceptance

B. Different Kinds of Succession

1. Testamentary Succession

a. Concept

b. Wills

i. Characteristics of a Will

ii. Effect of simply providing for disinheritance

c. Testamentary Capacity

d. Kinds of Wills: Notarial and Holographic Wills

i. Requisites Common to Notarial and Holographic Wills

ii. Requisites of a valid Notarial Will

iii. Special Requirements

iv. Requisites of a valid Holographic Will

e. Codicils and Doctrine of Incorporation by Reference

f. Revocation of Wills and Testamentary Dispositions

i. Modes

ii. Presumption of Revocation

iii. Doctrine of Dependent Relative Revocation

g. Republication and Revival of Wills

h. Allowance and Disallowance of Wills

i. Institution and Substitution of Heirs

j. Dispositions with a Condition or Term

k. Legacies and Devices

i. Instances when legacy/device is deemed revoked

2. Compulsory Succession

a. Table of Legitime

b. Computation of the Net Hereditary Estate

c. Determination of the Legitime

d. Consequence of Impairment of the Legitime

e. Preterition

f. Disinheritance

i. Requisites

ii. Grounds

iii. Effects of Disinheritance

iv. Effect of Reconciliation

v. Preterition vs. Defective Disinheritance

3. Intestate Succession

a. Causes of Intestacy

b. Order of Intestate Succession

c. Rule of Proximity and Rule of Equality

d. Iron Curtain Rule

C. Provisions Common to Testate and Intestate Succession

1. Rule of Proximity

2. Rule of Preference of Lines

3. Right of Representation

a. In the descending line

b. In the collateral line

c. Effect of illegitimate filiation of the representative as qualified by the ruling in Aquino v. Aquino, G.R. Nos. 208912 and 209018, December 7, 2021

4. Right of Accretion in intestate and testate succession

a. Requisites and limitations

5. Collation

6. Acceptance and Repudiation of Inheritance

a. Form of Repudiation

b. No right of representation when there is repudiation

7. Capacity to inherit

VII. SPECIAL CONTRACTS

A. Contract of Sale

1. Nature and Form

a. Contract of Sale vs. Contract to Sell

b. Option Contract

c. Right of First Refusal

d. Earnest Money in Contract of Sale and Contract to Sell

2. Capacity to Buy or Sell

3. Obligations of the Vendor

4. Double Sale

5. Effects of Loss of Thing Sold

6. Recto Law

7. Maceda Law (R.A. No. 6552)

a. Transactions covered by the Maceda Law

b. Computation of the number of installments made

c. Rights given to the buyer on installment

d. Requisites for a valid cancellation under the Maceda Law

e. Consequence of failure to comply with the requisites of a valid cancellation under the Maceda Law

8. Conventional and Legal Redemption

9. Equitable Mortgage

B. Contract of Lease

1. Rights and Obligations of the Lessor and Lessee

2. Sublease and Assignment of Lease

C. Agency

1. Nature, Form, and Kinds

2. Obligations of Agent and Principal

3. Extinguishment

VIII. CREDIT TRANSACTIONS

A. Loans

1. Definition

2. Kinds of Loans

a. Commodatum

b. Mutuum

B. Deposit

1. Definition

2. Kinds of Deposit

a. Judicial

b. Extrajudicial

C. Guaranty and Suretyship

1. Nature and Extent of Guaranty

2. Effects of Guaranty

3. Extinguishment of Guaranty

4. Legal and Judicial Bonds

D. Real Estate Mortgage

1. Requisites

2. Characteristics

3. Foreclosure

4. Right of Redemption

IX. PROPERTY, OWNERSHIP, AND ITS MODIFICATIONS

A. Property

1. Requisites

2. Classification of Property

a. According to Nature

i. Immovable Property

ii. Movable Property

b. According to Ownership

i. Property of Private Ownership

ii. Property of Public Dominion

B. Ownership

1. Definition

2. Object of Ownership

a. Difference between real and personal rights

3. Attributes of Ownership

4. Consequences of Ownership

5. Actions to Recover Ownership and Possession of Property

a. Doctrine of Self-Help

b. Accion Reivindicatoria

c. Accion Publiciana

d. Accion Interdictal

e. Quieting of Title

6. Rights of Accession

a. General Principles

b. Kinds

i. Accession Discreta

ii. Accession Continua

iii. Accession Natural

iv. Accession Industrial in relation to Immovable Property

v. Accession Industrial in relation to Movable Property

7. Co-Ownership

a. Definition

b. Quantitative and Qualitative Concept of Co-ownership

c. Consequences of Co-ownership

d. Right of Legal Redemption given to Co-owners of a co-owner selling his or her ideal share

i. Requisites

ii. Distinguished from the right of legal redemption given to co-heirs under Article 1080 of the Civil Code

e. Partition

f. Prescription among co-owners

8. Possession

a. Definition

b. Classification of Possession

i. Possession exercised in one’s own name or in the name of another

ii. Possession in concept of owner and possession in concept of holder

iii. Possession in good faith or bad faith

c. Effects of Possession

i. Nature of possession required for acquisitive prescription

ii. Presumption of just title

iii. Right to the fruits

iv. Right to Necessary Expenses, Useful Expenses and Luxurious Expenses

v. Effect of limited right of removal on the right to useful and luxurious improvements

vi. Possession equivalent to title

d. Loss of Possession

9. Easements

a. Concept of Easement

b. Characteristics

c. Kinds of Easement

d. Modes of Acquiring Easements

e. Rights and obligations of the dominant and servient estate

f. Modes of Extinguishment of Easements

C. Different Modes of Acquiring Ownership

1. Occupation

2. Tradition

3. Donation

a. Concept and definition

b. Essential elements

c. Classification of Donation

d. Distinctions Between Mortis Causa and Inter Vivos Donations

e. Donations Mortis Causa as Testamentary Dispositions

f. Form

g. Prohibited donations

h. Reduction and Revocation

4. Prescription

X. QUASI-CONTRACTS

A. Definition of Quasi Contracts

B. Kinds

1. Negotiorum Gestio

2. Solutio Indebiti

a. Distinction from Accion in Rem Verso

b. Mistake of law as basis for solutio indebiti

c. Significance of good faith on the part of the payee

3. Other Quasi Contracts

XI. QUASI-DELICTS

A. Principles

1. Abuse of Right; Elements

2. Unjust Enrichment

3. Liability without Fault

4. Acts Contrary to Law

5. Acts Contrary to Morals

B. The Tortfeasor

1. The Direct Tortfeasor

a. Natural Persons

b. Juridical Persons

2. Persons Made Responsible for Others

a. In General

i. Quasi-delicts

ii. Indirect liability for intentional acts

iii. Presumption of negligence on persons indirectly responsible

iv. Nature of liability

b. In Particular

i. Parents

ii. Guardian

iii. Owners and Managers of Establishments and Enterprises

iv. Employers

v. State

vi. Teachers and Heads of Establishments of Arts and Trades

3. Joint Tortfeasors

C. Proximate Cause

1. Concept

a. Distinguished from Immediate Cause

b. Distinguished from Intervening Cause

c. Distinguished from Remote and Concurrent

2. Legal Cause

a. Natural and Probable Consequences

b. Foreseeability

3. Efficient Intervening Cause

4. Cause vs. Condition

5. Last Clear Chance

D. Classification of Torts

1. Intentional

2. Negligent

3. Strict Liability

E. Defenses

1. Due diligence

2. Acts of public officers

3. Accident or fortuitous event

4. Damnum absque injuria

5. Assumption of risk

6. Last clear chance

7. Prescription

8. Waiver

9. Double recovery

F. Medical Negligence and Malpractice

XII. DAMAGES

A. General Considerations

B. Kinds

1. Actual and Compensatory Damages

2. Moral Damages

3. Nominal Damages

4. Temperate or Moderate Damages

5. Liquidated Damages

6. Exemplary or Corrective Damages

C. Damages in Case of Death

D. Duty of Injured Party

XIII. LAND TITLES AND DEEDS

Presidential Decree No. 1529

A. Torrens System

1. Decree of Registration

2. Review of Decree of Registration

3. Innocent Purchaser for Value; Rights

B. Regalian Doctrine

C. National Restrictions on Land Ownership

D. Confirmation of Imperfect Titles - R.A. No. 11573

E. Subsequent Registration

1. Voluntary Dealings

2. Involuntary Dealings; Adverse Claims and Notice of Lis Pendens

F. Non-Registrable Properties (Civil Code)

G. Dealings with Unregistered Lands

H. Assurance Fund

1. Nature of Assurance Fund

2. Conditions for Compensation from Assurance Fund

3. Parties named as respondents in action to claim against the Assurance Fund

4. Reckoning point of the prescriptive period to claim against the Assurance Fund

I. Reconstitution of Title

XIV. STRATEGIC PLAN FOR JUDICIAL INNOVATIONS 2022-2027

A. Challenges

B. Four Guiding Principles

C. Three Outcomes and Activities


 
 
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