Practice question
In Areza, did a finding of negligent bank handling automatically establish fraudulent or bad-faith conduct for moral damages?
- Always
- Only if the amount was large
- No; the Court separately examined bad faith and deleted the moral-damages award
- Yes, every mistake is fraud
- Yes, an honest mistake is legally impossible
Legal references
- Areza v. Express Savings Bank, G.R. No. 176697, September 10, 2014, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2014/sep2014/gr_176697_2014.html
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