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Article 1231

RA 386 · Civil Code of the PhilippinesKey provision

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Obligations are extinguished by: payment or performance, loss of the thing due, condonation or remission, confusion or merger of rights, compensation (set-off), and novation.

Official text — RA 386

Obligations are extinguished:

(1) By payment or performance;

(2) By the loss of the thing due;

(3) By the condonation or remission of the debt;

(4) By the confusion or merger of the rights of creditor and debtor;

(5) By compensation;

(6) By novation.

Other causes of extinguishment of obligations, such as annulment, rescission, fulfillment of a resolutory condition, and prescription, are governed elsewhere in this Code. (1156a)

Source: lawphil.net (RA 386 as amended)

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