- Statute
- Civil Code
- Article
- Art. 2014
- Topic
- Gambling
- Status
- In force
- Book
- BOOK IV Obligations and Contracts
- Title
- TITLE XIII ALEATORY CONTRACTS
- Chapter
- CHAPTER 2 Gambling
- Formerly
- Art. 1799a of the old Civil Code
- Year
- 1949
- Cited by
- A Supreme Court decision
The provision
No action can be maintained by the winner for the collection of what he has won in a game of chance. But any loser in a game of chance may recover his loss from the winner, with legal interest from the time he paid the amount lost, and subsidiarily from the operator or manager of the gambling house. (1799a)
Intellegal Wiki · In plain terms
A winner in a game of chance cannot go to court to collect what they won. A loser, on the other hand, may recover the money they paid out from the winner, with legal interest running from the time of payment, and secondarily from the operator or manager of the gambling house.
An editorially maintained plain-language explanation of this provision — not legal advice.
Intellegal Wiki · How the courts apply it
In Yun Kwan Byung v. Philippine Amusement, the Supreme Court held: PAGCOR cannot share its gambling franchise with third parties (delegata potestas non potest delegari); an agreement doing so is void, gambling debts are unenforceable (Article 2014), and a void contract cannot be ratified (Article 1409).
One leading Supreme Court case applying this provision.
Cases applying this article
- Yun Kwan Byung v. Philippine Amusement G.R. No. 163553