Article 1338

RA 386 · Civil Code of the PhilippinesKey provision

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Fraud in contracts: one party uses insidious words or machinations to induce the other to enter a contract — and the other would not have agreed without the fraud. Grounds for annulment.

Official text — RA 386

There is fraud when, through insidious words or machinations of one of the contracting parties, the other is induced to enter into a contract which, without them, he would not have agreed to. (1269)

Source: lawphil.net (RA 386 as amended)

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