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Civil Law

General Principles
1. Effect and Application of Laws
a. Conflict of Laws
2. Human Relations (Art. 19-22)
a. Exclude: Independent Civil Actions and Prejudicial Question

Persons and Family Relations


1. Persons and Personality
2. Marriage
a. Exclude: Muslim Code, Duties of Civil Registrar, AM 02-11-10-SC
3. Legal Separation
4. Rights and Obligations between Husband and Wife
5. Property Relations of Spouses
6. The Family
7. Paternity and Filiation
8. Adoption
a. Domestic Adoption Act (RA 8552)
i. Who can adopt
ii. Who can be adopted
iii. Rights of an adopted child (include: Art. 189-190 FC)
iv. Instances when adoption may be rescinded
v. Effects of rescission
b. Inter-Country Adoption Act (RA 8043)
i. When allowed
ii. Who can adopt
iii. Who can be adopted
c. Distinction between domestic and inter-country adoption
d. EXCLUDE: Art. 183-188, 191-193 FC
9. Support
10. Parental Authority
a. INCLUDE: Child Abuse Law (RA 7610), Sec. 10 (c)
11. Emancipation
12. Retroactivity of the FC
13. Funerals
14. Use of Surnames
a. Art. 364-380
b. RA 9255
15. Absence
a. Art. 41 FC
b. Art. 381-389, NCC
c. Art. 390-392, NCC
Property
1. Characteristics
2. Classification
3. Ownership
4. Accession
5. Quieting of Title
6. Co-Ownership
7. Possession
8. Usufruct
9. Easements
10. Nuisance
11. Modes of Acquiring Ownership
12. Donations

Prescription
1. Definition
2. Acquisitive and Extinctive Prescription
3. Prescription or limitation of actions

Obligations and Contracts

Obligations
1. Definition, Elements
2. Sources of Obligation
3. Nature and Effectsof Obligations
4. Kinds of Obligations
a. Pure and Conditional
b. With a period
c. Alternative Obligations
d. Joint and Solidary
e. Divisible and Indivisible
f. With a Penal Clause
5. Extinguishment of Obligations
a. Payment or Performance
b. Loss of thing due
c. Condonation or remission of debt
d. Confusion/merger of rights of creditor and debtor
e. Compensation
f. Novation

Contracts
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