Practice question
A buyer learns of a nuisance on the purchased premises that was started by the seller and refuses to abate it. Can the buyer rely solely on not having created it?
- Yes, successors are always immune
- Yes, nuisance transfers only by notarized assumption
- Yes, the seller’s death would legalize it
- Yes, public-document ownership defeats liability
- No; Article 696 makes a successive owner or possessor who fails or refuses to abate liable in the same manner as the creator
Legal references
- Civil Code, Article 696: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/2/53360
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