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BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Major in MANAGEMENT
COURSE SYLLABUS
Course No.
Course Title
Credit Units
Professor
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I-.AW ON OBLIGATIONS AND CONTRACTS
Three (3) units
Danilo P. Cafiet€, CPA, MBA
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is designed for the business students to learn
the basic concepts and principles of law in general: their meanings,
source, legal systems, and classifications. This includes the
statement of objectives in studying commercial laws, the main
poftion of which is devoted to the study of obligations and
contracts under civil code of the Philippines, including natural
obligations.
II.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
At the end of the course, the students are expected to:
A. Cognitive:
1. Describe the fundamental laws of obligations and contracts.
B.
Affedive
2. Explain the impoftance of learning the laws of obligations and
contracts in dealing with the day-to-day activities especially in
business activities.
C. Psychomotor
3. Conceptualize the law in actual situations.
HI.-COURSE CONTENT
Module
I
Chapter 1: THE IAW IN GENERAL
r Its definition, concepts and sources
r Its classifications and essential elements
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Roles and categories of managers
Chapter 2: THE LAW ON MERCHANTS
. Standard of care to be exercised by the debtor, the creditors
rights to the presentation and the debtors obligation to deliver.
o Kinds of delay and when incurred, sources of liability,
presumption and remedies of creditor against the debtor.
Transmissibility of rights.
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Module 2
Chapter 3: KINDS OF OBLIGATIONS
o Pure and conditional obligations
. Obligations with a period
o Alternative obligations
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Joint and solidary obligations
o Divisible and indivisible obligations
. Obligations with a penal clause
Module 3
Chapter 4: EXTINGUISHMENT OF OBLIGATIONS
. Payment of performance
. Loss of the thing used
o Condonation or remission of the debt
o Confusion or merger of rights
o Compensation
o Novation
Chapter 5: NATURAL OBLIGATIONS
o Definition
. Effects of obligations in general
Module 4
Chapter 6: CONTRACTS IN GENERAL
o Definition and terms
o Essential requisites
a. Consent
b. Object or subject matter
c. Cause or consideration
Module 5
Chapter 7: FORMS OF CONTRACT
o General rule as to form of contracts
o Contracts in certain form
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Contracts in public document
Chapter B: REFORMATION OF INSTRUMENTS
o Concepts of reformation
o Cases when reformation is proper or not
o Interpretation of contracts
a. Rules in the interpretation of a contract
b. Exceptions to the rule
Module 6
Chapter 9: DEFECTIVE CONTRACTS
o Rescissible contract
. Voidable contract
o Unenforceable contract
. Void or inexistent contract
o Extra contractual obligations
o Quasi contracts
o Negotiorum gestion
o Duties and obligations of the gestor
o Solution indebiti
o Other quasi-contractual relations
o Quasi delicts
o Damage and its kinds
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Case Analysis
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APPlications
LEARNING TASKS
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Reading for references
Experiential sharing
Case Analyses
Written examinations
Presentation of research assignment
Power point presentation
VI. EVALUATIVE M EASURES
o Quizzes. . r r r r . r , r r r . r ..25a/o
- Pre-Test
- Quiz
- Simple Exercises
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ResearchAssignment.,.,,..25o/o
- Talkback Essay
- Project
o PostTgst. r , . r r r r r r r . r r .50o/o
Total
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100o/o
REFERENCES/BIBLTOGRAPHY
1. Pasimio, Renato, OBLIGAIONS AND CONTMCIS (ANNONATED), National
Boostore, Inc. Manila ,2004.
2. De Leon, Hector, OBLIGATIONS AND CONTRACIS, Rex Bookstore Manila,
2003.
3. CIUL CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES,
Manlla.
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No. 186,1946 Bureau of Printing,