Philippine Civil Law by Topic

Civil law governs the everyday legal relationships between private persons: what you own, what you owe, what you inherit and what you can recover when someone causes you loss. Eight topic hubs organise civil-law questions into the decisions people actually face, and each one gives the rule, the evidence it turns on and the next step. Prefer questions and answers? Browse the civil law FAQs.

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Property and Ownership

Review ownership and its limits, accession, co-ownership and partition, possession, usufruct, right of way and other easements, nuisance and quieting of title.

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Succession and Inheritance

Learn who inherits, how legitimes and compulsory heirs work, the formal requirements of a will, intestate shares, disinheritance and extrajudicial settlement.

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Obligations and Contracts

Find the rules on breach and delay, fortuitous events, the requisites of a valid contract, void and voidable contracts, rescission, sales, lease and loans.

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Damages and Civil Liability

Understand negligence and quasi-delict, liability of parents and employers, abuse of rights, quasi-contracts, and how moral and exemplary damages are proved.

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Persons and Civil Status

Understand civil personality, citizenship and domicile, change of name, correction of birth records, absence and presumptive death, and civil registry procedure.

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Barangay, Courts and Civil Remedies

Identify where a civil claim belongs, when barangay conciliation is required first, small claims thresholds, prescriptive periods and how judgments are enforced.

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