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Practice question: Form of Contracts

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Practice question

An express donation of personal property worth PHP20,000 lacks written donation and acceptance. No other valid basis exists. The recipient invokes 1357 as though a missing constitutive form were merely later documentation. Which is correct?
  1. Article 748’s special form must be satisfied;1357 is not a universal cure of an invalid donation.
  2. Every missing validity form is automatically cured by asking for paper.
  3. All donations necessarily are oral service contracts.
  4. The recipient may privately waive the statute.
  5. Only the donor’s preferred font controls.

Legal references

  • Civil Code Articles748,1306,1319-1326,1356-1368,1372,1376 and1382-1389: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html

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