BAR: Most Frequently Asked Questions in Civil Law

SUBJECTS	INCLUSIVE YEARS	FREQUENCY	TOTAL
PERSONS
Requirements for the validity of Marriage	1989 1990 1992 1993 1994 1996 1997 1998 1999	3 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 2	14
Effects of Remarriage	1989 1990	2 1	3

Property Relations between husband and wife	1989 1992 1994 1995 1998 2000	2 1 1 1 1 2	8
Legal Separation (grounds and effects)	1989 1994 1996 1997	1 3 1 1	6
Family Home	1989 1994	1 1	2
Adoption	1989 1996 1996 2000	1 4 1 1	7
Legitimacy of a child	1989	1	1
Paternity and Filiation	1990 1995 1999	2 1 2	5
Publication and Effectivity of Law	1990	1	1
Constitutional Provision to strengthen the Family	1991	1	1
Constitutional provision on the policy against Divorce	1991	1	1
Rights of an unborn child	1991	2	2
Marriage Settlement (requirements for validity and effects)	1991	2	2
Annulment (grounds, declaration, and effects)	1991 1993 1995 1996 1997	2 3 1 1 2	9
Void and Voidable Marriages (kinds and effects)	1991 1996 1999	3 1 1	5
Article 8, NCC (Judicial Decisions)	1994	1	1
Parental Authority	1994	1	1
Juridical Capacity and Capacity to Act	1996	1	1
Article 3, NCC (Ignorance of the law)	1996	1	1
Renvoi doctrine	1997	1	1
Prejudicial Questions	1997	3	3
Distribution of Property after the dissolution of marriage	1997	2	2
23. Marriage in Articulo Mortis	1995	1	1
24. Civil law system against Common law system	1997	1	1
OBLIGATIONS AND CONTRACT
Contracts in general (concept, kinds, requirements for validity, and remedies)	1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1996 1998	1 2 7 1 1 4 1	17
Extinguishment of Obligations	1989 1992 1994 1998 2000	1 1 2 2 2	8
Statute of Frauds	1989	1	1
Loss of a thing due	1990 1994 2000	1 1 1	3
Solidary Obligation	1992	1	1
Negotiorum Gestio	1992	1	1
Quasi-Contract	1993	1	1
Rate of Exchange	1995	1	1
Kinds of Obligations	1997 2000	1 1	2
10. Subrogation of Creditor	1993	1	1
11. Laches	2000	1	1
PROPERTY
Usufruct in general, rights and obligations of the usufructuary, and extinguishment of the usufruct	1989 1995 1996 1997 1998	1 2 1 1 1	6
Right of Accession	1989 1992 2000	1 1 1	3
Effects of Possession (Unlawful Deprivation)	1991	1	1
Builder in Good faith	1992 1999 2000	1 1 1	3
Landowner in Good faith	1992	1	1
Occupation	1992 1997	1 1	2
Rights of Co-owners	1993	1	1
Easement (concept, kinds, and effects)	1993 1995 1996 2000	1 2 2 1	6
Hidden Treasure	1995 1997	2 1	3
Classification of Property	1995 1997	1 1	2
Ownership	1995	1	1
Possessor in Good faith vs. Possessor in bad faith	1996	1	1
Possession in general	1997	1	1
Landowner in Bad faith	1999	1	1
15. Acquisitive Prescription	1992	1	1
SALES AND LEASE
Obligations of Vendor	1989 1996	1 1	2
Maceda Law	1989 1999 2000	1 1 1	3
Lease in general and the rights and obligations of the lessor and lessee	1990 1993 1996 1997 1999	1 1 1 1 1	5
Sub Lease (concept and effects)	1990 1994 1999 2000	1 1 1 1	4
Promise to Sell	1991	1	1
Rights of the real owner in sale by person not the real owner	1993	1	1
Right of First Refusal	1996 1998	1 1	2
Option to Purchase	1996	1	1
Contract to Sell (nature and effects)	1997 1999	1 1	2
Absolute Sale	1997	1	1
Conditional Sale (concept, rights of the buyer, and effects of retroactivity)	1997 1999	1 2	3
Recto Law	1997 1999	1 1	2
Pactum Commissorium	1997	1	1
Conventional Redemption	2000	1	1
Contract of Sale (nature and effects)	1997	1	1
Lease of Rural Land	2000	1	1
Common Carrier	2000	1	1
PARTNERSHIP, AGENCY, AND TRUST
Concept of Partnership	1989 1997	1 1	2
Obligations of Partners	1992 1993	1 1	2
Dissolution of Partnership	1995 1998	1 1	2
4. Limited and General Partnership	1994	1	1
5. Contract of Agency	2000	1	1
LAND TITLES AND DEEDS
Rules concerning public auction	1991	1	1
Circumstances when an owner is divested of land in tax sales	1991	1	1
Effects of a forged deed	1991	1	1
Process of Registration	1993 1994	1 1	2
Steps and Procedure in CONSULTA	1994	1	1
Reconstitution of land	1996	1	1
Reconveyance of land	1997 1999	1 1	2
Free Patent	1997	1	1
Prescription	1990 1998 2000	1 1 1	3
Notice of adverse claim and lien	1998	1	1
Public Land Act	1999 2000	1 2	3
12. Torrens System	1990 1991 1994	2 1 1	4
13. Requirements for reopening or review of a decree of registration	1992	1	1
14. Co-ownership (effects)	1998	1	1
15. Reclamation	2000	1	1
CREDIT TRANSACTIONS
Foreclosure of REM	1989	3	3
Equitable Mortgage	1991	1	1
Right of Repurchase	1991	1	1
Mortgage	1992 1999	1 2	3
Suretyship	1992	1
Loan	1992	1	1
Agency	1992 1994 1997 1999	2 1 1 2	6
Depositary by force majeure	1992	1	1
Trust	1993 1995 1997 1998	1 3 1 3	8
Commodatum	1993	3	3
Ejectment	1994 1998	1 1	2
Chattel Mortgage	1994 1999	1 1	2
Pledge	1994 1996 1999	1 1 1	3
Antichresis	1995 1996	3 1	4
Concurrence and Preference of Credit	1995	1	1
Deposit	1998	1	1
Equitable Redemption	1999	1	1
TORTS AND DAMAGES
Quasi-delict	1990 1991 1996 1998	2 1 1 1	5
Liability of the employer and the driver in case of accident	1992 2000	1 1	2
Defense of diligence in the selection and supervision of employees	1997	1	1
Defense of diligence of a good father of a family	1992	1	1
Residual Parental liability	1993	1
WILLS AND SUCCESSION
Wills in general	1989 1993 1995 1996 1998 2000	3 1 3 1 2 1	11
Disinheritance	1989 1993 1999	1 1 1	3
Donation (requirements for validity and effects)	1990 1991 1993 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000	1 3 1 1 1 2 1 1	11
Distribution of Estate	2000	1	1
When is there death in Succession?	1991 2000	1 1	2
Contractual Succession	1991	1	1
Stipulation pour atrui	1991	1
Intestate Succession	1992 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000	1 6 1 2 2 3 2	17
Capacity to Succeed	1993	1	1
Holographic Will	1996 1997	1 1	2
Successional Rights	1998	1	1
Succession in general	1999	1	1
Presumptive :Legitime	1999	1
Preterition	1993 1999	1 2	3
CONFLICTS OF LAW
Doctrine of Processual Presumptioon	1991	1	1
Will by a Filipino	1990	1	1
Will by a foreigner residing in the Philippines	1990	1	1
Article 17, NCC	1991 1993	1 1	2
Article 1700, NCC	1991	1	1
Validity, performance, and consideration of contracts	1992	1	1
Cocnovit (definition)	1994	1	1
Borrowing Statute (definition)	1994	1	1
Characterization (definition)	1994	1	1
Doctrine of Forum Non Conveniens (definition)	1994	1	1
Long Arm Statute (definition)	1994	1	1
Intrinsic Validity of Contracts	1994	1	1
Capacity to Contract of foreigners	1993	1	1
Capacity to Contract of Filipino	1993	1	1