JURISTS BAR REVIEW CENTER

2017 Bar Examinations Coverage For

CIVIL LAW

PART l GENERAL PRINCIPLES

I. Effect and Application of Laws (Civil Code)

Include: Conflict of Laws (Private International Law)

ll. Human Relations (Arts. 19-22, Civil Code)

Exclude: Independent civil actions and prejudicial questions which will be covered by the
examinations in Remedial Law

PART ll - PERSONS AND FAMILY RELATIONS

I. Persons and Personality (Civil Code)

ll. Marriage (Family Code)

Exclude:
1. Muslim Code (P.D. 1083)
2. Duties of a Civil Registrar under Articles 12-19, 23-25 (Family Code)
3. A.M. No. 02-11-10-SC, Rule on Declaration of Absolute Nullity of Void Marriages and
Annulment of Voidable Marriages; R.A. No. 6955, entitled An Act to Declare Unlawful the
Practice of Matching Filipino Women for Marriage to Foreign Nationals on a Mail Order
Basis and Other Similar Practices x x x; R.A. No. 9208 or the Anti-Trafficking in Persons
Act of 2003

lll. Legal Separation (Family Code)

Exclude: A.M. No. 02-11-11-SC, or the Rule on Legal Separation

lV. Rights and Obligations Between Husband and Wife (Family Code)

Exclude: R.A. No. 7192 or the Women in Development and Nation Building Act; R.A. No.
8187, or the Paternity Leave Act of 1996; R.A. No. 9710, or The Magna Carta of Women.

V. Property Relations of the Spouses (Family Code)

Exclude: Summary Judicial Proceedings in Family Law Cases

Vl. The Family (Family Code)

1. The family as an institution

2. The family home

Vll. Paternity and Filiation (Family Code)

Exclude: A.M. No. 06-11-5-SC or Rule on DNA Evidence

Vlll. Adoption

A. Domestic Adoption Act of 1998 (R.A. No. 8552)

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1. Who can adopt

2. Who can be adopted
3. Rights of an adopted child (include Art. 189-190, Family Code)
4. Instances when adoption may be rescinded
5. Effects of rescission

Exclude:
1. Rule on Adoption (A.M. No. 02-6-02-SC)
2. R.A. No. 9523, entitled An Act Requiring Certification of the Department of Social
Welfare and Development to Declare a Child Legal Available for Adoption as a
Prerequisite for Adoption Proceedings xxx.
B. Inter-Country Adoption Act of 1995 (R.A. No. 8043)
1. When allowed
2. Who can adopt
3. Who can be adopted

C. Distinction between domestic adoption and inter-country adoption

Exclude: Articles 183-188, 191-193 (Family Code)

lX. Support (Family Code)

X. Parental Authority (Family Code)

Include: Child Abuse Law (R.A. No. 7610), specifically Sec. 10(c).

Exclude:
1. Rule on Guardianship of Minors (A.M. No. 03-02-05-SC)
2. Rules on Custody of Minors and Writ of Habeas Corpus in Relation to Custody of Minors
(A.M. No. 03-04-04-SC)
3. Solo Parents' Welfare Act of 2000 (R.A. No. 8972)
4. The Early Childhood Care and Development Act (R.A. No. 8980)
5. R.A. No. 9231, entitled An Act Providing for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child
Labor and Affording Stronger Protection for the Working Child x x x, which will be
covered under Labor Law

Xl. Emancipation (Arts. 234 and 236, Family Code, as amended by R.A. No. 6809 which
lowered the age of majority)

Xll. Retroactivity of the Family Code (Art. 256)

Exclude: Arts. 254-255, 257 (Family Code)

Xlll. Funerals (Arts. 305-310, Civil Code)

Exclude: Care and Education of Children (Arts. 356-363, Civil Code)

XlV. Use of Surnames

Arts. 364-380, Civil Code (other articles not repealed by Family Code)

Include: R.A. No. 9255 (An Act Allowing Illegitimate Children to Use the Surname
of Their Father)

XV. Absence

1. Art. 41, Family Code

2. Art. 381-389, Civil Code
3. Art. 390-392, Civil Code (Presumption of Death)

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PART lll - PROPERTY

I. Characteristics

II. Classification

III. Ownership

IV. Accession

V. Quieting of Title to or Interest in and Removal or Prevention of Cloud over

Title to or Interest in Real Property

VI. Co-Ownership

VII. Possession

VIII. Usufruct

IX. Easements

X. Nuisance

XI. Modes of Acquiring Ownership

XII. Donations

Prescription

I. Definition

II. Acquisitive and Extinctive Prescription

III. Instances when prescription is not allowed

IV. Prescription or limitation of actions

PART lV - OBLIGATIONS AND CONTRACTS

Obligations

I. Definition, Elements

II. Sources of Obligation

III. Nature and Effects of Obligations

IV. Kinds of Obligations

1. Pure and Conditional
2. Obligations with a Period
3. Alternative Obligations
4. Joint and Solidary Obligations
5. Divisible and Indivisible Obligations
6. Obligations with a Penal Clause

V. Extinguishment of Obligations
1. Payment or Performance

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2. Loss of the Thing Due

3. Condonation or remission of debt
4. Confusion or merger of rights of creditor and debtor
5. Compensation
6. Novation

Contracts

I. Essential Requisites

II. Kinds of Contracts

III. Objects, Cause and Form of Contracts

IV. Reformation of Instruments

V. Interpretation of Contracts

VI. Rescissible Contracts

VII. Voidable Contracts

VIII. Unenforceable Contracts

IX. Void and Inexistent Contracts

Natural Obligations

Estoppel

PART V - SALES

I. Nature and Form of Contract

II. Capacity to Buy or Sell

III. Effects of the Contract when the Thing Sold has been lost

IV. Obligations of the Vendor

V. Obligations of the Vendee

VI. Breach of Contract

Include:
1. Recto Law: sale of movables on installment (Articles 1484-1486, Civil Code)
2. Maceda Law: sale of immovable on installment (RA 6552)

Vll. Extinguishment of the Sale

Vlll. Assignment of Credits

PART Vl - LEASE

I. General Provisions
1. Lease of Things
2. Lease of Work and Services

II. Lease of Rural and Urban Lands

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III. Rights and Obligations of Lessor and Lessee

IV. Special Rules for Lease of Rural/Urban Lands

Exclude: Household Service, Contract of Labor, Contract for

Piece of Work (for inclusion in Labor Law)

PART Vll - PARTNERSHIP

I. Contract of Partnership

II. Rights and Obligations of Partnership

III. Rights and Obligations of Partners Among Themselves

IV. Obligations of Partnership/Partners to Third Persons

V. Dissolution and Winding Up

VI. Limited Partnership

PART Vlll - AGENCY

I. Definition

II. Nature, Form and Kinds of Agency

III. Obligations of the Agent

IV. Obligations of the Principal

V. Modes of Extinguishment

PART IX - TRUST

I. Definition

II. Kinds of Trust

1. Express trust
2. Implied Trust

PART X - CREDIT TRANSACTIONS

I. Loan

II. Deposit

III. Guaranty and Suretyship

IV. Pledge, Mortgage and Antichresis, Chattel Mortgage (include Act 1508)

V. Quasi-Contracts

VI. Concurrence and Preference of Credits

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Include: Section 133 of Republic Act No. 10142 (An Act Providing
for the Rehabilitation or Liquidation of Financially Distressed
Enterprises and Individuals)

PART Xl - SUCCESSION

I. General Provisions

II. Testamentary Succession/Wills

III. Legal or Intestate Succession

IV. Provisions Common to Testate and Intestate Succession

Exclude: Executors and administrators (Arts. 1058-1060, Civil Code), which will be
covered under Remedial Law

PART Xll LAND TITLES AND DEEDS

l. Torrens System (General Principles)

ll. Original Registration

lll. Subsequent Registration

1. Voluntary dealings

2. Involuntary dealings

B. Non-registrable Properties

C. Dealings with Unregistered Lands

Exclude:

1. History of land laws

2. Remedies sufficiently covered under Remedial Law

3. Registration of Judgments, orders and partitions

4. Assurance fund

5. Registration of patents

6. Administrative structure of the Register of Deeds

7. Consultas

PART Xlll - TORTS AND DAMAGES

Book 1 Torts/Quasi-Delicts
Articles 2176-2194 (Civil Code)

I. Definition, Elements

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II. Classification of Torts

1. Negligent Torts
2. Intentional Torts
3. Strict Liability

III. The Tortfeasor

1. Direct tortfeasor
2. Persons made responsible for others
3. Nature of liability

IV. The Concepts and Doctrines of Res Ipsa Loquitur, Last Clear Chance, Proximate
Cause, Damnum Absque Injuria, Presumption of Negligence, Vicarious Liability.

V. Legal Injury

Book ll Damages
Articles 2195-2235 (Civil Code)

l. General Provisions

ll. Actual and Compensatory Damages

lll. Moral Damages

lV. Nominal Damages

V. Temperate or Moderate Damages

Vl. Liquidated Damages

Vll. Exemplary or Corrective Damages

Vlll. Damages in Case of Death

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