Sublease and Assignment

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1. Under Article 1649, may a lessee assign the lease without lessor consent?
2. When there is no express prohibition in the lease, what does Article 1650 generally permit?
3. What is the Article 1652 character of a sublessee’s rent liability to the lessor?
4. A lease contains no express subletting prohibition. The lessee sublets a room and tells the owner that the sublease alo…
5. A sublessee damages the premises through use contrary to the use-and-preservation terms of the head lease. The sublesse…
6. The original lessee owes PHP60,000 rent. At the time of the lessor’s extrajudicial demand, only PHP15,000 is due from t…
7. After the head lessee defaults, a sublessee attempts to defeat the owner’s rent claim by prepaying many future installm…
8. Distinguish the default rules for assignment and sublease under the general Civil Code regime.
9. Explain the sublessee’s use-and-preservation obligations and the limit on subsidiary rent liability.
10. Can advance rent to the sublessor always defeat the original lessor’s Article 1652 claim?
11. Does 1649 permit a contrary stipulation to its ordinary assignment-consent rule?
12. What 1652 qualification concerns otherwise relevant advance subrent payments?