CHAPTER 7

Voidable Contracts
Article 1390: The following contracts are voidable or annullable,
even though there may have been no damage to the contracting
parties:
(1) Those where one of the parties is incapable of giving
consent to a contract;
(2) Those where the consent is vitiated by mistake, violence,
intimidation, undue influence or fraud.
These contracts are binding, unless they are annulled by a
proper action in court. They are susceptible of ratification. (n)
G.R. No. 174118
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, represented by the Archbishop of
Caceres, Petitioner,
vs. REGINO PANTE, Respondent
April 11, 2012
G.R. No. 175666
MANILA BANKERS LIFE INSURANCE CORPORATION, Petitioner.
vs. CRESENCIA P. ABAN, Respondent.
July 29, 2013
G.R. No. 173320
EDUARDO B. MANZANO, Petitioner,
vs.ANTONIO B. LAZARO, Respondent
April 11, 2012
G.R. No. 191390
THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, Plaintiff-Appellee,
vs .JOEL DIOQUINO Y GARBIN, Accused-Appellant.
April 2, 2014

G.R. No. 187485

COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Petitioner,
vs.SAN ROQUE POWER CORPORATION, Respondent.
February 12, 2013
G.R. No. 196113
TAGANITO MINING CORPORATION, Petitioner,
vs.COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent.
February 12, 2013
G.R. No. 197156
PHILEX MINING CORPORATION, Petitioner,
vs. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent.
February 12, 2013

Article 1391 : The action for annulment shall be brought within

four years. This period shall begin:
In cases of intimidation, violence or undue influence, from the time
the defect of the consent ceases.
In case of mistake or fraud, from the time of the discovery of the
same. And when the action refers to contracts entered into by
minors

or

other

incapacitated

persons,

from

the

time

the

guardianship ceases. (1301a)

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Article 1395 : Ratification does not require the conformity of the

contracting party who has no right to bring the action for
annulment. (1312)
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Article 1396. Ratification cleanses the contract from all its defects
from the moment it was constituted. (1313)
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Article 1399. When the defect of the contract consists in the incapacity of
one of the parties, the incapacitated person is not obliged to make any
restitution except insofar as he has been benefited by the thing or price
received by him. (1304)
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CHAPTER 8
Unenforceable Contracts
Article 1403: The following contracts are unenforceable, unless
they are ratified:
(1) Those entered into in the name of another person by one
who has been given no authority or legal representation, or
who has acted beyond his powers;
(2) Those that do not comply with the Statute of Frauds as set
forth in this number. In the following cases an agreement
hereafter made shall be unenforceable by action, unless the
same, or some note or memorandum, thereof, be in writing,
and subscribed by the party charged, or by his agent;
evidence, therefore, of the agreement cannot be received
without the writing, or a secondary evidence of its contents:
(a) An agreement that by its terms is not to be performed
within a year from the making thereof;

(b) A special promise to answer for the debt, default, or

miscarriage of another;
(c) An agreement made in consideration of marriage,
other than a mutual promise to marry;
(d) An agreement for the sale of goods, chattels or things
in action, at a price not less than five hundred pesos,
unless the buyer accept and receive part of such goods
and chattels, or the evidences, or some of them, of such
things in action or pay at the time some part of the
purchase money; but when a sale is made by auction and
entry is made by the auctioneer in his sales book, at the
time of the sale, of the amount and kind of property sold,
terms of sale, price, names of the purchasers and person
on whose account the sale is made, it is a sufficient
memorandum;
(e) An agreement for the leasing for a longer period than
one year, or for the sale of real property or of an interest
therein;
( f ) A representation as to the credit of a third person.
(3) Those where both parties are incapable of giving consent
to a contract.
G.R. No. 190016
FREDERICK VENTURA, MARITES VENTURA-ROXAS, and PHILIP
VENTURA (HEIRS OF DECEASED DOLORES C. VENTURA), Petitioners,
vs. HEIRS OF SPOUSES EUSTACIO T. ENDAYA and TRINIDAD L.
ENDAYA, namely, TITUS L. ENDAYA, ENRICO L. ENDAYA, and
JOSEPHINE ENDAYA-BANTUG, Respondents

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G.R. No. 185945
FIDELIZA J. AGLIBOT, Petitioner,
vs.INGERSOL L. SANTIA, Respondent.
December 05, 2012

Article 1405: Contracts infringing the Statute of Frauds, referred

to in No. 2 of article 1403, are ratified by the failure to object to the
presentation of oral evidence to prove the same, or by the
acceptance of benefit under them.
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CHAPTER 9
Void and Inexistent Contracts
Article 1410. The action or defense for the declaration of the inexistence of
a contract does not prescribe.

G.R. No. 175666

MANILA BANKERS LIFE INSURANCE CORPORATION, Petitioner.
vs.CRESENCIA P. ABAN, Respondent
July 29, 2013
G.R. No. 173188
THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP OF THE SPOUSES VICENTE CADAVEDO
AND BENITA ARCOY-CADAVEDO (both deceased), substituted by their
heirs, namely: HERMINA, PASTORA, Heirs of FRUCTUOSA, Heirs of
RAQUEL, EVANGELINE, VICENTE, JR., and ARMANDO, all surnamed
CADAVEDO, Petitioners,
vs.VICTORINO (VIC) T. LACAYA, married to Rosa Legados, Respondents
January 15, 2014

Article 1411: When the nullity proceeds from the illegality of the
cause or object of the contract, and the act constitutes a criminal
offense, both parties being in pari delicto, they shall have no action
against each other, and both shall be prosecuted. Moreover, the
provisions of the Penal Code relative to the disposal of effects or
instruments of a crime shall be applicable to the things or the price
of the contract.
This rule shall be applicable when only one of the parties is guilty;
but the innocent one may claim what he has given, and shall not be
bound to comply with his promise. (1305)
G.R. No. 181508
OSCAR CONSTANTINO, MAXIMA CONSTANTINO and CASIMIRA
MATURINGAN, Petitioners,
vs. HEIRS OF PEDRO CONSTANTINO, JR., represented by ASUNCION
LAQUINDANUM, Respondents.
October 2, 2013