Practice question
A and B jointly owe PHP100,000 in expressly unequal shares of 20% and 80%. The whole credit is validly transferred to A. No other extinction occurs. What 1277 result follows?
- Every joint debtor is automatically released.
- Only equal shares can ever exist.
- The remaining claim doubles to PHP160,000.
- A’s PHP20,000 share is extinguished; B’s PHP80,000 remains.
- The assignment creates an unrelated mortgage.
Legal references
- Civil Code Articles748,1236-1237,1270-1299 and1302: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html
- RA11232 Section2, separate corporate entity: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2019/ra_11232_2019.html
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