Practice question
A special law requires a higher care standard for a particular activity. The defendant invokes only the general ordinary-diligence default as automatically sufficient. Which is correct?
- The default erases every special law
- All activities necessarily use identical care
- A contract label always defeats special law
- The applicable special legal standard must be applied rather than displaced by a default for unstated standards
- Higher care is legally impossible
Legal references
- Civil Code, Articles 1163 and 1173: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/2/53360
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