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Practice question: Contributory Negligence

Multiple Choice Medium

Practice question

A court expressly adopts the same 60–40 actual-damages allocation as Philippine Bank of Commerce for a proved PHP 500,000 loss. What amount of that actual loss falls on the bank defendants?
  1. PHP 800,000
  2. PHP 500,000
  3. PHP 200,000
  4. PHP 50,000
  5. PHP 300,000

Legal references

  • Civil Code, Articles 1735, 1755-1756, 2176, 2179, 2184-2185 and 2214: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html
  • Philippine Bank of Commerce v. Court of Appeals, G.R. No. 97626, March 14, 1997, MAIN decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1997/mar1997/gr_97626_1997.html

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