Practice question
A vendor exercising conventional redemption offers only the original price and refuses to reimburse established necessary and useful expenses on the thing sold. No waiver or contrary issue is shown. Which provision matters?
- Only the purchaser’s personal dislike of the vendor.
- Article 1616 requires the price and the additional specified expenses, including necessary and useful expenses.
- Every expense is automatically excluded.
- The seller must instead pay double the property’s current value in every case.
- A conventional redemptioner may never reimburse any expense.
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html — Civil Code, articles 1601,1606–1607,1616,1619–1623.
- https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2025/apr2025/gr_259662_2025.html — Azurin, Jr. v Chua, GR 259662, April 23 2025, main opinion: written notice and peculiar-circumstances/laches exception.
- https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2021/sep2021/gr_219556_2021.html — Rama v Spouses Nogra, GR 219556, September 14 2021, main opinion: sufficient knowledge plus laches.
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