Practice question
A child has an intra-uterine life of six months, is alive at complete delivery, and dies twelve hours later. For civil purposes under Article 41, an heir argues that any moment of life after delivery necessarily satisfies every birth condition. Which is correct?
- Every live delivery automatically satisfies Article 41 without qualification
- The child is not deemed born under the specific less-than-seven-month and death-within-twenty-four-hours rule
- The special rule applies only to children older than seven months
- The heir may disregard the stipulated gestational period
- The rule concerns only corporate registration
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html — Civil Code, Articles 37–42 and 1025
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