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Practice question: Fortuitous Event

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Practice question

Under Article 1263, what happens to a generic delivery obligation when the debtor's own stock of that kind is destroyed?
  1. It necessarily ends because every loss extinguishes every debt
  2. The loss of things of the same kind does not itself extinguish the generic obligation
  3. It becomes a donation
  4. It automatically transfers to the creditor
  5. It becomes enforceable only by a criminal case

Legal references

  • Civil Code Articles 1165, 1170–1174 and 1262–1263: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html

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