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Practice question: Confusion

Multiple Choice Hard

Practice question

An interested obligor pays a creditor and the 1302(3) legal-subrogation requirements apply. A co-obligor argues the payer’s own-share confusion necessarily destroys every possible claim preserved against other obligors. Which is best?
  1. Any own-share confusion automatically eliminates all other rights.
  2. Distinguish confusion of the payer’s share from the subrogation rights otherwise preserved.
  3. The article never mentions shares.
  4. The co-obligor may privately select a different statute.
  5. Payment necessarily makes all prior shares equal.

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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