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Practice question: Duty of Injured Party to Mitigate Damages

Multiple Choice Medium

Practice question

A substitute arrangement reduces an otherwise proved PHP100,000 lost-profit amount by PHP30,000, without any additional expense or adjustment. What remaining lost-profit figure reflects that actual mitigation?
  1. PHP70,000
  2. PHP100,000 without accounting
  3. PHP130,000
  4. PHP200,000
  5. Zero solely because some mitigation occurred

Legal references

  • Civil Code RA386: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html Articles2199–2200,2203.

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