Practice question
A payer proves a sum was not due and that payment resulted from a mistaken application of a genuinely difficult legal rule. The payee invokes Article3 as an absolute bar to any restitution. Which is correct?
- Article2155 expressly allows the qualified mistake to fall within undue-payment recovery
- Article3 repeals2155
- Every legal mistake proves a valid debt existed
- The payee necessarily owns all mistaken payments
- Only factual mistakes are ever recognized by2155
Legal references
- Civil Code RA386: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html Articles3,526 and2154–2156.
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