Practice question
The creditor’s own conduct led a debtor to believe that a third person had authority to receive payment. The required statutory facts are established. The creditor demands separate proof of actual benefit despite Article 1241’s qualification. Which is correct?
- The creditor-conduct situation is expressly among the cases in which benefit need not be proved
- Only a written power of attorney can ever matter
- The debtor’s evidence of creditor conduct is always irrelevant
- Every third-person payment is invalid
- The creditor may erase prior conduct by denial
Legal references
- Civil Code, Articles 1209-1210,1223-1230,1238-1243,1266-1268 and1423-1430: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html
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