Practice question
A seventeen-year-old, incapable of consent for this ordinary transaction, contracts with a fully capable adult. No special exception applies, and incapacity is the only defect. What is the proper classification?
- Void solely because every minor’s contract is inexistent.
- Voidable because one party is incapable of giving consent.
- Unenforceable solely because both parties are incapable.
- Automatically criminal.
- Fully immune from any annulment despite the incapacity.
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html — Civil Code, articles 1390–1399.
- https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1989/ra_6809_1989.html — RA 6809, sections1 and3: majority at eighteen, subject to special-law exceptions.
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