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Indeterminate Thing or Generic Thing and The Value of Superior Quality and Inferior Quality Considering
Indeterminate Thing or Generic Thing and The Value of Superior Quality and Inferior Quality Considering
Indeterminate Thing or Generic Thing and The Value of Superior Quality and Inferior Quality Considering
thing, whose quality and circumstances have not been stated, the creditor cannot demand a
thing of superior quality. Neither can the debtor deliver a thing of inferior quality. The
Purpose of the obligation and other circumstances shall be taken into consideration.
(1167a)
Flaw:
Thus, upon reading the aforesaid Article, a doubt or question may arise on how we determine the
indeterminate thing or generic thing and the value of superior quality and inferior quality considering
that obligations when demandable may arise either or all of that sources of the law on obligations and
contracts.
The debate on this article rest primarily on the manner on how we determine the indeterminate thing or
generic thing and the value of superior quality and inferior quality or when does a demandable
obligation arises of the law on obligations and contracts to the exclusion of the other sources?
It is noted that in obligations, there is always a concurrence between the law which establishes or
recognizes it and the act or condition upon which the obligation is based.
The aforesaid article is very specific as to its application. It can be applied to a demandable obligation
when such obligation arises from law. And that demandable obligation is governed by the law itself and
the agreement of the parties is not necessary unlike in the contracts and other sources of obligation.
Moreover, only those expressly provided in the law are enforceable and cannot be presumed.
A thing is said to be specific or determinate particularly designated or physically segregated
others of the same class.
Meaning of generic or indeterminate thing
A thing is generic or indeterminate when it refers only a class or genus to which it
pertains and cannot be pointed out with particularly
Flaw:
Definition of terms:
segregated from all others from the same class. (Art. 1460, NCC)
Indeterminate or generic thing- a thing is generic when it refers to class or thing or genus and
cannot be.