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Practice question: Natural Persons

Multiple Choice Medium

Practice question

A twelve-year-old owns property through a valid inheritance. A relative says minority means the child has no juridical capacity at all. Which is correct?
  1. The relative is right because only adults can hold rights
  2. Minority may restrict capacity to act, but does not eliminate the child’s juridical capacity
  3. The child becomes a corporation
  4. Ownership automatically makes the child an adult
  5. All inherited property must be ownerless

Legal references

  • https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html — Civil Code, Articles 37–42 and 1025

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