Practice question
A visitor agrees to face an obvious minor obstacle but is injured instead by an undisclosed hidden defect that the visitor did not know or appreciate. Does accepting the visible obstacle alone establish assumption of the hidden risk?
- No, the specific unknown risk is not automatically included
- Yes, accepting one risk accepts every possible risk
- Yes, all hidden defects become known by law
- No, because every injury necessarily yields damages
- Yes, if a general slogan says be careful
Legal references
- Civil Code Articles 1171, 2176 and 2179: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html
- Abrogar v. Cosmos Bottling Company, GR 164749, March 15, 2017, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2017/mar2017/gr_164749_2017.html
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