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    This document summarizes a case involving the validity of a marriage in articulo mortis (at the point of death) between Matea de la Cruz and Felipe Apelan Felix in January 1945. According to the facts, Matea and Felipe had lived together for many years without being formally married. When Matea became seriously ill, a priest was summoned and married the couple before administering last rites to Matea. Matea later recovered but died in 1946. In 1952, Matea's grandchildren filed a complaint seeking her properties from Felipe, claiming the marriage was invalid. The court had to determine whether the marriage conducted while Matea was on her deathbed was legally valid.

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    This document summarizes a case involving the validity of a marriage in articulo mortis (at the point of death) between Matea de la Cruz and Felipe Apelan Felix in January 1945. According to the facts, Matea and Felipe had lived together for many years without being formally married. When Matea became seriously ill, a priest was summoned and married the couple before administering last rites to Matea. Matea later recovered but died in 1946. In 1952, Matea's grandchildren filed a complaint seeking her properties from Felipe, claiming the marriage was invalid. The court had to determine whether the marriage conducted while Matea was on her deathbed was legally valid.

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    This document summarizes a case involving the validity of a marriage in articulo mortis (at the point of death) between Matea de la Cruz and Felipe Apelan Felix in January 1945. According to the facts, Matea and Felipe had lived together for many years without being formally married. When Matea became seriously ill, a priest was summoned and married the couple before administering last rites to Matea. Matea later recovered but died in 1946. In 1952, Matea's grandchildren filed a complaint seeking her properties from Felipe, claiming the marriage was invalid. The court had to determine whether the marriage conducted while Matea was on her deathbed was legally valid.

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    De Loria Vs Felix

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    This document summarizes a case involving the validity of a marriage in articulo mortis (at the point of death) between Matea de la Cruz and Felipe Apelan Felix in January 1945. According to the facts, Matea and Felipe had lived together for many years without being formally married. When Matea became seriously ill, a priest was summoned and married the couple before administering last rites to Matea. Matea later recovered but died in 1946. In 1952, Matea's grandchildren filed a complaint seeking her properties from Felipe, claiming the marriage was invalid. The court had to determine whether the marriage conducted while Matea was on her deathbed was legally valid.

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    Marriage in Articulo Mortis

    (Article 27, 31, 32)Case: Arsenio De Loria and Ricarda De Loria and Felipe Apelan Felix
    Nature: Review of a decision of CA
    involving the central issue of the validity of the marriage in articulo mortis between Matea de la
    Cruz and Felipe Apelan Felix.
    Article 1-73 of the Family Code of the Philippine
    Fact appears that long before, and during the War of the Pacific, these two persons lived together
    as wife and husband at Cabrera Street, Pasay City. They acquired properties but had no children.
    In the early part of the liberation of Manila and surrounding territory, Matea became seriously ill.
    Knowing her critical condition, two young ladies of legal age dedicated to the service of God,
    named Carmen Ordiales and Judith Vizcarra visited and persuaded her to go to confession. They
    fetched Father Gerardo Bautista, Catholic parish priest of Pasay. The latter, upon learning that the
    penitent had been living with Felipe Apelan Felix without benefit of marriage, asked both parties
    to ratify their union according to the rites of his Church. Both agreed. Whereupon the priest
    heard the confession of the bed-ridden old woman, gave her Holy Communion, administered the
    Sacrament of Extreme Unction and then solemnized her marriage with Felipe Apelan Felix in
    articulo mortis, Carmen Ordiales and Judith Vizcarra acting as sponsors or witnesses. It was then
    January 29 or 30, 1945. After a few months, Matea recovered from her sickness; but death was
    not to be denied, and in January 1946, she was interred in Pasay, the same Fr. Bautista
    performing the burial ceremonies.
    On May 12, 1952, Arsenio de Loria and Ricarda de Loria filed this complaint to compel defendant
    to an accounting and to deliver the properties left by the deceased. They are grandchildren of
    Adriana de la Cruz, sister of Matea, and claim to be the only surviving forced heirs of the latter.
    Felipe Apelan Felix resisted the action, setting up his rights as widower. They obtained favorable
    judgment in the court of first instance, but on appeal the Court of Appeals reversed and
    dismissed the complaint. Their request for review here was given due course principally to
    consider the legal question-which they amply discussed in their petition and printed brief
    whether the events which took place in January 1945 constituted, in the eyes of the law, a valid
    and binding marriage.
    Issue: W/N the marriage was celebrated in Articulo Mortis?Does the failure to sign the "marriage
    certificate or contract" constitute a cause for nullity?
    Ruling: Yes. There is no question about the officiating priest's authority to solemnizemarriage.
    There is also no question that the parties had legal capacity to contractmarriage, and that both
    declared before Fr. Bautista and Carmen Ordiales and JudithVizcarra that "they took each other
    as husband and wife."
    The law permits in articulo mortis marriages, without marriage license; but it requires the priest
    to make the affidavit and file it. Such affidavit contains the data usually required for the issuance
    of a marriage license. The first practically substitutes the latter. Now then, if a marriage
    celebrated without the license is not voidable (under Act 3613) this marriage should not also be
    voidable for lack of such affidavit. In the first place, the Marriage Law itself, in sections 28, 29
    and 30 enumerates the causes for annulment of marriage.
    Failure to sign the marriage contract is not one of them.

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