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Practice question: Contributory Negligence

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Practice question

Does a customer’s failure to detect an employee’s fraud automatically erase a bank’s proved proximate negligence? Discuss Philippine Bank of Commerce.

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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