CIVIL CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES

PRELIMINARY TITLE

Chapter 1. Effect and Application of Laws

Chapter 2. Human Relations

BOOK I. PERSONS

Title I. Civil Personality

Chapter 1. General Provisions
Chapter 2. Natural Persons
Chapter 3. Juridical Persons

Title II. Citizenship and Domicile

Titles III-IX are now repealed by E.O. No. 209, otherwise known as the Family Code of
the Philippines.

Title X. Funerals

Title XI is now repealed by E.O. No. 209, otherwise known as the Family Code of the
Philippines.

Title XII. Care and Education of Children

Title XIII. Use of Surnames

Title XIV. Absence

Chapter 1. Provisional Measures in Case of Absence
Chapter 2. Declaration of Absence
Chapter 3. Administration of the Property of the Absentee
Chapter 4. Presumption of Death
Chapter 5. Effect of Absence Upon the Contingent Rights of the Absentee

Title XV ​is now repealed by E.O. No. 209, otherwise known as the Family Code of the
Philippines.

Title XVI. Civil Register

 BOOK II. PROPERTY, OWNERSHIP, AND ITS MODIFICATIONS

Title I. Classification of Property

PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS
Chapter 1. Immovable Property
Chapter 2. Movable Property
Chapter 3. Property in Relation to the Person to Whom it Belongs

Title II. Ownership

Chapter 1. Ownership in General
Chapter 2. Right of Accession
Section 1. Rights of Accession with Respect to What is Produced by
Property
Section 2. Rights of Accession with Respect to Immovable Property
Section 3. Rights of Accession with Respect to Movable Property
Chapter 3. Quieting of Title
Chapter 4. Ruinous Buildings and Trees in Danger of Falling

Title III. Co-Ownership

Title IV. Some Special Properties
Chapter 1. Waters
Section 1. Ownership of Waters
Section 2. The Use of Public Waters
Section 3. The Use of Waters of Private Ownership
Section 4. Subterranean Waters
Section 5. General Provisions
Chapter 2. Minerals
Chapter 3. Trademarks and Tradenames

Title V. Possession
Chapter 1. Possession and the Kinds Thereof
Chapter 2. Acquisition of Possession
Chapter 3. Effects of Possession

Title VI. Usufruct

Chapter 1. Usufruct in General
Chapter 2. Rights of the Usufructuary
Chapter 3. Obligations of the Usufructuary
Chapter 4. Extinguishment of Usufruct
Title VII. Easements or Servitudes
Chapter 1. Easements in General
Section 1. Different Kinds of Easements
Section 2. Modes of Acquiring Easements
Section 3. Rights and Obligations of the Owners of the Dominant and
Servient Estates
Section 4. Modes of Extinguishment of Easements
Chapter 2. Legal Easements
Section 1. General Provisions
Section 2. Easements Relating to Waters
Section 3. Easement of Right of Way
Section 4. Easement of Party Wall
Section 5. Easement of Light and View
Section 6. Drainage of Building
Section 7. Intermediate Distances and Works for Certain Constructions
and Plantings
Section 8. Easement Against Nuisance
Section 9. Lateral and Subjacent Support
Chapter 3. Voluntary Easements

Title VIII. Nuisance

Title IX.Registry of Property

BOOK III. DIFFERENT MODES OF ACQUIRING OWNERSHIP

PRELIMINARY PROVISION

Title I. Occupation

Title II. Intellectual Creation.

Title III. Donation

Chapter 1. Nature of Donation
Chapter 2. Persons Who May Give or Receive a Donation
Chapter 3. Effect of Donations and Limitations Thereon
Chapter 4. Revocation and Reduction of Donations

Title IV. Succession

Chapter 1. General Provisions
Chapter 2. Testamentary Succession
Section 1. Wills
Subsection 1. Wills in General
Subsection 2. Testamentary Capacity and Intent
Subsection 3. Forms of Wills
Subsection 4. Witnesses to Wills
Subsection 5. Codicils and Incorporation by Reference
Subsection 6. Revocation of Wills and Testamentary Dispositions
Subsection 7. Republication and Revival of Wills
Subsection 8. Allowance and Disallowance of Wills
Section 2. Institution of Heir
Section 3. Substitution of Heirs
Section 4. Conditional Testamentary Dispositions and Testamentary
Dispositions with a Term
Section 5. Legitime
Section 6. Disinheritance
Section 7. Legacies and Devises
Chapter 3. Legal or Intestate Succession
Section 1. General Provisions
Subsection 1. Relationship
Subsection 2. Right of Representation
Section 2. Order of Intestate Succession
Subsection 1. Descending Direct Line
Subsection 2. Ascending Direct Line
Subsection 3. Illegitimate Children
Subsection 4. Surviving Spouse
Subsection 5. Collateral Relatives
Subsection 6. The State
Chapter 4. Provisions Common to Testate and Intestate Successions
Section 1. Right of Accretion
Section 2. Capacity to Succeed by Will or by Intestacy
Section 3. Acceptance and Repudiation of the Inheritance
Section 4. Executors and Administrators
Section 5. Collation
Section 6. Partition and Distribution of the Estate
Subsection 1. Partition
Subsection 2. Effects of Partition
Subsection 3. Rescission and Nullity of Partition
Title V. Prescription
Chapter 1. General Provisions
Chapter 2. Prescription of Ownership and Other Real Rights
Chapter 3. Prescription of Actions

BOOK IV. OBLIGATIONS AND CONTRACTS

Title I. Obligations
Chapter 1. General Provisions
Chapter 2. Nature and Effect of Obligations
Chapter 3. Different Kinds of Obligations
Section 1. Pure and Conditional Obligations
Section 2. Obligations with a Period
Section 3. Alternative Obligations
Section 4. Joint and Solidary Obligations
Section 5. Divisible and Indivisible Obligations
Section 6. Obligations with a Penal Clause
Chapter 4. Extinguishment of Obligations
Section 1. Payment or Performance
Subsection 1. Application of Payments
Subsection 2. Payment by Cession
Subsection 3. Tender of Payment and Consignation
Section 2. Loss of the Thing Due
Section 3. Condonation or Remission of the Debt
Section 4. Confusion or Merger of Rights
Section 5. Compensation
Section 6. Novation

Title II. Contracts

Chapter 1. General Provisions
Chapter 2. Essential Requisites of Contracts
Section 1. Consent
Section 2. Object of Contracts
Section 3. Cause of Contracts
Chapter 3. Form of Contracts
Chapter 4. Reformation of Instruments
Chapter 5. Interpretation of Contracts
Chapter 6. Rescissible Contracts
 Chapter 7. Voidable Contracts
Chapter 8. Unenforceable Contracts
Chapter 9. Void or Inexistent Contracts

Title III. Natural Obligations

Title IV. Estoppel

Title V. Trusts
Chapter 1. General Provision
Chapter 2. Express Trusts
Chapter 3. Implied Trusts

Title VI. Sales

Chapter 1. Nature and Form of the Contract
Chapter 2. Capacity to Buy or Sell
Chapter 3. Effects of the Contract When the Thing Sold Has Been Lost
Chapter 4. Obligations of the Vendor
Section 1. General Provisions
Section 2. Delivery of the Thing Sold
Section 3. Conditions and Warranties
Subsection 1. Warranty in Case of Eviction
Subsection 2. Warranty against Hidden Defects of or
Encumbrances Upon the Thing Sold
Chapter 5. Obligations of the Vendee
Chapter 6. Actions for Breach of Contract of Sale of Goods
Chapter 7. Extinguishment of Sale
Section 1. Conventional Redemption
Section 2. Legal Redemption
Chapter 8. Assignment of Credits and Other Incorporeal Rights
Chapter 9. General Provisions

Title VII. Barter or Exchange

Title VIII. Lease

Chapter 1. General Provisions
Chapter 2. Lease of Rural and Urban Lands
Section 1. General Provisions
Section 2. Rights and Obligations of the Lessor and the Lessee
 Section 3. Special Provisions for Leases of Rural Lands
Section 4. Special Provisions for the Lease of Urban Lands
Chapter 3. Work and Labor
Section 1. Household Service
Section 2. Contract of Labor
Section 3. Contract for a Piece of Work
Section 4. Common Carriers
Subsection 1. General Provisions
Subsection 2. Vigilance Over Goods
Subsection 3. Safety of Passengers
Subsection 4. Common Provisions
Title IX. Partnership
Chapter 1. General Provisions
Chapter 2. Obligations of the Partners
Section 1. Obligations of the Partners among Themselves
Section 2. Property Rights of a Partner
Section 3. Obligations of the Partners with Regard to Third Persons
Chapter 3. Dissolution and Winding Up
Chapter 4. Limited Partnership

Title X. Agency
Chapter 1. Nature, Form and Kinds of Agency
Chapter 2. Obligations of the Agent
Chapter 3. Obligations of the Principal
Chapter 4. Modes of Extinguishment of Agency

Title XI. Loan

Chapter 1. Commodatum
Section 1. Nature of Commodatum
Section 2. Obligations of the Bailee
Section 3. Obligations of the Bailor
Chapter 2. Simple Loan or Mutuum

Title XII. Deposit.

Chapter 1. Deposit in General and Its Different Kinds
Chapter 2. Voluntary Deposit
Section 1. General Provisions
Section 2. Obligations of the Depositary
Section 3. Obligations of the Depositor
 Chapter 3. Necessary Deposit
Chapter 4. Sequestration or Judicial Deposit

Title XIII. Aleatory Contracts

Chapter 1. Insurance
Chapter 2. Gambling
Chapter 3. Life Annuity

Title XIV. Compromises and Arbitrations

Chapter 1. Compromises
Chapter 2. Arbitrations

Title XV. Guaranty

Chapter 1. Nature and Extent of Guaranty
Chapter 2. Effects of Guaranty
Section 1. Effects of Guaranty Between the Guarantor and the Creditor
Section 2. Effects of Guaranty Between the Debtor and the Guarantor
Section 3. Effects of Guaranty as Between Co-guarantors
Chapter 3. Extinguishment of Guaranty
Chapter 4. Legal and Judicial Bonds

Title XVI. Pledge,Mortgage and Antichresis

Chapter 1. Provisions Common to Pledge and Mortgage
Chapter 2. Pledge
Chapter 3. Mortgage
Chapter 4. Antichresis
Chapter 5. Chattel Mortgage

Title XVII. Extra-Contractual Obligations

Chapter 1. Quasi-contracts
Section 1. Negotiorum Gestio
Section 2. Solutio Indebiti
Section 3. Other Quasi-Contracts
Chapter 2. Quasi-Delicts

Title XVIII. Damages

Chapter 1. General Provisions
Chapter 2. Actual or Compensatory Damages
Chapter 3. Other Kinds of Damages
 Section 1. Moral Damages
Section 2. Nominal Damages
Section 3. Temperate or Moderate Damages
Section 4. Liquidated Damages
Section 5. Exemplary or Corrective Damages

Title XIX. Concurrence and Preference of Credits

Chapter 1. General Provisions
Chapter 2. Classification of Credits
Chapter 3. Order of Preference of Credits, Transitional Provisions, and Repealing
Clause

THE FAMILY CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES

(E.O. No. 209) as amended

Title I. Marriage
Chapter 1. Requisites of Marriage
Chapter 2. Marriages Exempt from the License Requirement
Chapter 3. Void and Voidable Marriages

Title II. Legal Separation

Title III. Rights and Obligations between Husband and Wife

Title IV. Property Relations Between Husband and Wife

Chapter 1. General Provisions
Chapter 2. Donations by Reason of Marriage
Chapter 3. System of Absolute Community
Section 1. General Provisions
Section 2. What Constitutes Community Property
Section 3. Charges Upon and Obligations of the Absolute Community
Section 4. Ownership, Administration, Enjoyment and Disposition of the
Community Property
Section 5. Dissolution of Absolute Community Regime
Section 6. Liquidation of the Absolute Community Assets and Liabilities
Chapter 4. Conjugal Partnership of Gains
Section 1. General Provisions
Section 2. Exclusive Property of Each Spouse
Section 3. Conjugal Partnership Property
 Section 4. Charges Upon and Obligations of the Conjugal Partnership
Section 5. Administration of the Conjugal Partnership Property
Section 6. Dissolution of Conjugal Partnership Regime
Section 7. Liquidation of the Conjugal Partnership Assets and Liabilities
Chapter 5. Separation of Property and Administration of Common Property by
One Spouse During the Marriage
Chapter 6. Regime of Separation of Property
Chapter 7. Property Regime of Unions Without Marriage

Title V. The Family

Chapter 1. The Family as an Institution
Chapter 2. The Family Home

Title VI. Paternity and Filiation

Chapter 1. Legitimate Children
Chapter 2. Proof of Filiation
Chapter 3. Illegitimate Children
Chapter 4. Legitimated Children

Title VII. Adoption

Title VIII. Support

Title IX. Parental Authority

Chapter 1. General Provisions
Chapter 2. Substitute and Special Parental Authority
Chapter 3. Effect of Parental Authority Upon the Persons of the Children
Chapter 4. Effect of Parental Authority Upon the Property of the Children

Title X. Emancipation and Age of Majority

Title XI. Summary Judicial Proceedings in the Family Law

Chapter 1. Scope of Application
Chapter 2. Separation in Fact Between Husband and Wife
Chapter 3. Incidents Involving Parental Authority
Chapter 4. Other Matters Subject to Summary Proceedings

Title XII. Final Provisions

 THE CODE OF MUSLIM PERSONAL LAWS OF THE PHILIPPINES
(P.D. No. 1083)

BOOK ONE. GENERAL PROVISIONS

Title I. Title and Purposes of Code

Title II. Construction of Code and Definition of Terms

BOOK TWO. PERSONS AND FAMILY RELATIONS

Title I. Civil Personality (Shakshiyah Madaniya)

Title II. Marriage and Divorce

Chapter 1. Applicability Clause
Chapter 2. Marriage (Nikah)
Section 1. Requisites of Marriage
Section 2. Prohibited Marriages
Section 3. Subsequent Marriages
Section 4. Batil and Fasid Marriages
Section 5. Rights and Obligations Between Spouses
Section 6. Property Relations Between Spouses
Chapter 3. Divorce (Talag)
Section 1. Nature and Form
Section 2. 'Idda...

Title III. Paternity and Filiation

Title IV. Support (Nafaqa)

Title V. Parental Authority

Chapter 1. Nature and Effects
Chapter 2. Custody and Guardianship

Title VI. Civil Registry

Chapter 1. Registry of Marriage, Divorce and Conversions
Chapter 2. Other Acts Affecting Civil Status

BOOK THREE. SUCCESSION

Title I. General Provisions

Title II. Testamentary Succession

Chapter 1. Wills

Title III. Legal Succession

Chapter 1. Sharers
Chapter 2. Residuary Heirs
Chapter 3. Distant Kindred (Dhaw-Ul-Arham)

Title IV. Settlement and Partition of Estate

BOOK FOUR. ADJUDICATION AND SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES AND

RENDITION OF LEGAL OPINIONS

Title I. The Shari'a Courts

Chapter 1. Shari'a District Courts
Chapter 2. Shari'a Circuit Courts

Title II. The Agama Arbitration Council

Title III. Jurisconsult in Islamic Law

BOOK FIVE. MISCELLANEOUS AND TRANSITORY PROVISIONS

Title I. Muslim Holidays

Title II. Communal Property

Title III. Customary Contracts

Title IV. Conversions

Title V. Penal Provisions

Chapter 1. Rule on Bigamy
Chapter 2. Specific Offenses

Title VI. Transitory and Final Provisions