Civil Code Art. 1338: Essential Requisites of

Statute: Civil Code
Article: Art. 1338
Topic: Essential Requisites of Contracts
Book: BOOK IV Obligations and Contracts
Title: TITLE II CONTRACTS
Chapter: CHAPTER 2 Essential Requisites of Contracts
Formerly: Art. 1269 of the old Civil Code
Year: 1949

The provision

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)

Cases applying this article

Spouses Carmen S. Tongson v. Emergency Pawnshop Bula G.R. No. 167874

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