- Statute
- Philippine Civil Code
- Article
- Art. 747
- Topic
- Persons Who May Give or Receive a Donation
- Status
- In force
- Book
- BOOK III DIFFERENT MODES OF ACQUIRING OWNERSHIP Preliminary Provision
- Title
- TITLE III DONATION
- Chapter
- CHAPTER 2 Persons Who May Give or Receive a Donation
- Formerly
- Art. 631 of the old Civil Code
- Year
- 1949
- Cited by
- A Supreme Court decision
The provision
Persons who accept donations in representation of others who may not do so by themselves, shall be obliged to make the notification and notation of which article 749 speaks. (631)
Intellegal Wiki · In plain terms
A person who accepts a donation on behalf of someone who cannot accept for himself takes on the procedural duty that Article 749 imposes. Where the donation is of an immovable and the acceptance is made in a separate public instrument rather than in the deed of donation itself, the donor must be notified in authentic form and that step must be noted in both instruments. The requirement is not clerical: under Article 749 an acceptance made in a separate instrument does not take effect unless these steps are observed and the acceptance is made during the donor's lifetime.
An editorially maintained plain-language explanation of this provision — not legal advice.
Cases applying this article
- In the Matter of the Will of the Deceased Eugenia Zuñiga del Rosario. Vicente Reyes Villavicencio v. Santiago Quinio G.R. No. 45248