Practice question
A service agreement’s first clause describes monthly inspection. A later clause defines the inspection as covering electrical and mechanical systems. One party isolates the first clause to exclude electrical inspection. Which rule is most directly applicable?
- Every first clause overrides all later clauses.
- Every later clause automatically invalidates the first.
- The entire agreement is necessarily void.
- Only the heading may be read.
- Article 1374 requires the stipulations to be interpreted together.
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html — Civil Code, articles 1370–1378.
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