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Practice question: Definition and Essential Elements

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Practice question

What is the prestation or object of an obligation in its technical sense?
  1. Only the paper on which an agreement is written.
  2. Only the creditor’s economic motive.
  3. The court fee paid to enforce a contract.
  4. The identity of the witness.
  5. The conduct required of the obligor: to give, to do, or not to do.

Legal references

  • https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html — Civil Code, articles 1156–1159 and1423.
  • https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2015/jan2015/gr_167519_2015.html — Wellex Group v U-Land Airlines, GR 167519, January 14 2015, main opinion: prestation as required conduct.

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