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Article 1458

RA 386 · Civil Code of the PhilippinesKey provision

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A contract of sale: one party (seller/vendor) obligates themselves to transfer ownership of a thing and deliver it, and the other (buyer/vendee) pays the price in money or its equivalent.

Official text — RA 386

By the contract of sale one of the contracting parties obligates himself to transfer the ownership and to deliver a determinate thing, and the other to pay therefor a price certain in money or its equivalent.

A contract of sale may be absolute or conditional. (1445a)

Source: lawphil.net (RA 386 as amended)

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