Practice question
A contract is executed in countryA. The dispute concerns only its external execution formalities, no consular act or special exception is involved, and the applicable foreign rule is properly established. What is Article 17's ordinary connecting law?
- Every aspect necessarily follows Philippine law
- CountryB merely because a witness later visits there
- The law of the payee's bank
- CountryA's law for the stated formalities issue
- No law can govern
Legal references
- Civil Code Articles15–17 and1306: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html
- Saudia v. Rebesencio, GR198587, January14 2015, main decision: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/1/60343
- Family Code Article26, as amended: https://lawphil.net/executive/execord/eo1987/eo_209_1987.html
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