Contract of Sale: Franklin D. Lopez Accounting Education Department Rmmc-Mi

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CONTRACT OF SALE

FRANKLIN D. LOPEZ
ACCOUNTING EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
RMMC-MI
CAPACITY TO BUY OR SELL

Discussion outline:
1. Who may enter into a contract of sale
2. Who may not give consent
3. Kinds of incapacity
4. Sale of necessaries
5. Persons prohibited by law from acquiring by purchase
General Rule: “All persons with capacity to act may enter into a contract of sale. “Capacity to act” means the power
to do acts with legal effects.
The following cannot give consent:
1. Unemancipated minors
2. insane or demented persons, and
3. Deaf mutes who do not know how to write (Art. 1327)
 Kinds of Incapacity

1. Absolute incapacity
2. Relative incapacity

 Sale of necessaries
Necessaries include everything that is indispensable for sustenance, dwelling, clothing, medical attendance, education
and transportation.
 Article 1490. Husband and wife cannot sell property to each other, except on the following:

1. When a separation of property was agreed upon in the marriage settlements; or


2. When there has been judicial separation of property under Article 191.
Article 1491 . The following persons cannot acquire by purchase, even at a public or judicial auction, either in person
or through the mediation of another.
3. The Guardian
4. Agents
5. Executor
6. Public officers and employees
7. Justices, judges, prosecuting attorneys, clerk of superior and inferior courts and other officers and employees
connected with the administration of justices
 Status of sale in violation of prohibition

a. For item 1, 2, & 3 the contract is voidable since only private interest are involved.
b. For item 4 & 5, the contract is void since they are imbued with public interests.
Note: the Prohibition in Article 1490 and 1491 are applicable to sales in legal redemption, compromise and
renunciation
Legal Redemption – this the right to be subrogated, upon the same terms and conditions stipulated in the contract, in
the place of one who acquires a thing by purchase or dacion in payment, or by any transaction whereby ownership is
transmitted by onerous title. (Art. 1619)
Compromise – it is a contract whereby the parties, by reciprocal concessions, avoid a litigation or put an end to one
already commenced. (Art. 2028)
Renunciation – it is the gratuitous abandonment by the creditor of his right against the debtor.

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