Fortuitous Event

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1. Who determines whether a partial loss is sufficiently important to extinguish the obligation under Article1264?
2. A storm destroys a thing while in the debtor’s possession. Does the Article1265 natural-calamity exception, standing al…
3. A promised antique table suffers a small repairable scratch. The debtor insists that any physical impairment automatica…
4. A final judgment requires a thief to return a particular stolen violin. Before returning or offering it to the person e…
5. A debtor’s duty to deliver a specific item is lawfully extinguished by its loss. The debtor has an existing cause of ac…
6. Distinguish Article1265’s presumption from the ultimate determination whether a natural calamity discharges the debtor.
7. A specific object is partly damaged rather than wholly destroyed. Explain Article1264 without assuming that every impai…
8. State Article1268’s special rule for a determinate thing owed because of a criminal offense, including its refused-offe…