This document discusses various articles related to consent in contracts. Article 1326 states that advertisements for bidders are invitations to propose and the advertiser is not bound to accept the highest or lowest bid unless otherwise indicated. Article 1327 lists those who cannot consent to contracts, including unemancipated minors, insane or demented persons, and deaf-mutes who do not know how to write. Article 1328 states that contracts entered during a lucid interval are valid but contracts agreed to while drunk or hypnotized are voidable.
This document discusses various articles related to consent in contracts. Article 1326 states that advertisements for bidders are invitations to propose and the advertiser is not bound to accept the highest or lowest bid unless otherwise indicated. Article 1327 lists those who cannot consent to contracts, including unemancipated minors, insane or demented persons, and deaf-mutes who do not know how to write. Article 1328 states that contracts entered during a lucid interval are valid but contracts agreed to while drunk or hypnotized are voidable.
This document discusses various articles related to consent in contracts. Article 1326 states that advertisements for bidders are invitations to propose and the advertiser is not bound to accept the highest or lowest bid unless otherwise indicated. Article 1327 lists those who cannot consent to contracts, including unemancipated minors, insane or demented persons, and deaf-mutes who do not know how to write. Article 1328 states that contracts entered during a lucid interval are valid but contracts agreed to while drunk or hypnotized are voidable.
This document discusses various articles related to consent in contracts. Article 1326 states that advertisements for bidders are invitations to propose and the advertiser is not bound to accept the highest or lowest bid unless otherwise indicated. Article 1327 lists those who cannot consent to contracts, including unemancipated minors, insane or demented persons, and deaf-mutes who do not know how to write. Article 1328 states that contracts entered during a lucid interval are valid but contracts agreed to while drunk or hypnotized are voidable.
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ART.
1326 – ART 1335
DISCUSSION ART. 1326. Advertisements for bidders are simply invitations to make proposals, and the advertiser is not bound to accept the highest or lowest bidder, unless the contrary appears.(n) ART. 1327. The following cannot give consent to a contract:
(1) Unemancipated minors;
(2) Insane or demented persons, and deaf-mutes who do not know how to write. Examples: Unemancipated minors. A who is a minor owns a land, being the only heir of his deceased father. B purchases the land and there is a failure to transfer because A is still minor.
Insane or demented persons. A who is insane in
the time of entering a contract to B is not valid.
Deaf-mutes. A who is entering to a contract with
B, knows how to read but can’t write due to physical reason is valid. ART. 1328. Contracts entered into during a lucid interval are valid. Contracts agreed to in a state of drunkenness or during a hypnotic spell are voidable. Definition: Lucid Interval – temporary period of sanity.
Drunkenness – condition of a man whose
mind affected by immediate use of intoxicating drinks.
Hypnotic spell – an induced somnambulism
(sleepwalking) or an artificial method of inducing sleep. ART. 1329. The incapacity declared in article 1327 is subject to the modifications determined by law, and is understood to be without prejudice to special disqualifications established in the laws. ART. 1330. A contract where consent is given through mistake, violence, intimidation, undue influence, or fraud is voidable. ART. 1331. In order that mistake may invalidate consent, it should refer to the substance of the thing which is the object of the contract, or to those conditions which have principally moved one or both parties to enter into the contract.
Mistake as to the identify or qualifications one
of the parties will vitiate consent only when such identity or qualifications have been the principal cause of the contract.
A simple mistake of account shall give rise to
its correction. EXAMPLES
Mistake regarding object.
Ben is buying from Sarah a breeding cow but Sarah is selling a barren cow.
Mistake regarding condition of the contract.
Sarah is selling his parcel of land for P100,000.00 cash but Ben is buying the land thinking that the price is payable in installments. Mistake regarding identity or qualifications. (a)Sarah sold his car to Ben. Sarah thought that Ben, who is a lawyer, was a doctor. The mistake here is not material as to avoid the contract.
(b) Ryan donated his car to Ena. Ryan thought
that Ena was his half-sister. It turned out that Ena is not related to Ryan. The mistake as to the identity of Ena in this case is material because his identity was the principal reason or consideration for the donation. ART. 1332. When one of the parties is unable to read, or if the contract is in a language not understood by him, and mistake or fraud is alleged, the person enforcing the contract must show that the terms thereof have been fully explained to the former. ART. 1333. There is no mistake if the party alleging it knew the doubt, contingency or risk affecting the object of the contract. EXAMPLE
Gina acquired a house and lot from Gino
Property Holding, historically it is known to the public that Gino area is prone to flood during rainy days. When Jose transferred to their newly purchased house the same house submerged in the flood, thereafter, Gina demanded to cancel his purchase agreement with Gino Property Holding on the ground that his house was flooded. ART. 1334. Mutual error as to the legal effect of an agreement when the real purpose of the parties is frustrated, may vitiate consent. Example
Fermin and Nicolas entered into a written contract affecting the land belonging to Fermin, for and consideration of P500. At the time the contract was entered into, Fermin thought that he was given P500 by Nicolas for the mortgage of his (Fermin’s) land. Nicolas, on the other hand, thought that by giving Fermin P500 he had purchased the land. The contract is voidable and may annul in court. However, if there has been a meeting of minds as the object of the contract, the proper remedy is reformation of the instrument. ART. 1335. There is violence when in order to wrest consent, serious or irresistible force is employed.
There is intimidation when one of the contracting parties is
compelled by a reasonable and well-grounded fear of an imminent and grave evil upon his person or property, or upon the person or property of his spouse, descendants or ascendants, to give his consent.
To determine the degree of the intimidation, the age, sex
and condition of the person shall be borne in mind.
A threat to enforce one’s claim through competent
authority, if the claim is just or legal, does not vitiate consent. Examples:
Regine owes Jean P5000. If Regine fails to pay
her obligation, a threat by Jean that she would enforce collection through a court action does not vitiate consent.
But if Jean knows that Regine is not obligated
to her and Regine pays Jean P5000 or larger amount because of the threat, there is intimidation sufficient to vitiate consent. Boknoy committed a violation of law. Mikay threatens to report Boknoy to the police unless the latter gives him P5000.
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