Practice question
The parties' established arrangement reserves the seller's agreement to transfer ownership until the buyer performs specified conditions. A receipt identifies the property, a contemplated price and a sum called earnest money. The buyer argues these words alone eliminate the unfulfilled conditions. Which analysis is consistent with Chavez?
- Receipt terminology necessarily eliminates the conditions
- The court must determine the actual agreement and cannot use the earnest-money label alone to substitute a perfected sale for the established contract to sell
- The buyer automatically acquires title to unrelated property
- Every receipt proves delivery of all title documents
- The parties' surrounding agreement is categorically irrelevant
Legal references
- Civil Code Articles 1475, 1477 and 1482: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html
- Chavez v. Spouses Gopez, GR 242366, February 26, 2025, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2025/feb2025/gr_242366_2025.html
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