Notes: All Bar candidates should be guided that only laws with
their respective amendments and canonical doctrines pertinent to
these topics as of June 30, 2019 will be covered in the 2020 Bar
Examinations, except when provided in this syllabus. Principles of
law are not covered by the cut-off period.
This syllabus is only a guide for the bar examinations. It should
not be mistaken for a course syllabus.
Partnership (Articles 1767-1867), Credit Transactions (Articles
2047- 2092; 2124-2131; and 2140-2141), except for Loan and
Deposit; and Concurrence and Preference of Credits (Articles
2236-2251) will be part of Commercial Law. Civil Code
provisions on Labor will not be covered in Civil Law. The
procedure for foreclosure of mortgage (real and personal) will be
covered in Remedial Law.
I. IN GENERAL
A. When law takes effect
B. Retroactivity of laws
C. Mandatory or prohibitory laws
D. Waiver of rights
E. Repeal of laws
F. Conflict of laws
G. Human relations
H. Applicability of penal laws
II. PERSONS AND FAMILY RELATIONS
A. PERSONS
1. Kinds of Persons
2. Capacity to act
3. Domicile and residence of persons
B. RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF COUPLES IN INTIMATE
RELATIONSHIPS (REP. ACT No. 9262)
C. MARRIAGE
1. Requisites
2. Marriages celebrated abroad
3. Foreign divorce
4. Void marriages
5. Voidable marriages
6. Unmarried cohabitation
D. LEGAL SEPARATION
1. Grounds
2. Defenses
3. Procedure
4. Effects of filing petition
5. Effects of pendency
6. Effects of decree of legal separation
7. Reconciliation
8. Effect of death of one of the parties
E. RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS BETWEEN HUSBAND AND
WIFE
F. PROPERTY RELATIONS OF THE SPOUSES
1. Marriage settlements
2. Donations by reason of marriage
3. Void donations by the spouses
4. Absolute community of property
5. Conjugal partnership of gains
6. Regime of separation of property
7. Judicial separation of property
8. Property regime of unions without marriage
G. THEFAMILY
1. Concept of family
2. Effects on legal disputes
3. Family home
H. PATERNITY AND FILIATION
1. Legitimate children
2. Proof of filiation
3. Illegitimate children
4. Action to impugn legitimacy
5. Legitimated children
I. ADOPTION
1. Domestic Adoption Law
2. Law on Inter-Country Adoption
J. SUPPORT
1. What it compromises
2. Who are obliged to give support
3. Source of support
4. Order of support
5. Amount of support
6. Manner and time of payment
7. Renunciation and termination
8. Support pendente lite
9. Procedure in applications for support
K. PARENTAL AUTHORITY
1. General provisions
2. Substitute parental authority
3. Special parental authority
4. Effect of parental authority over the child's person
5. Effects of parental authority over the child's property
6. Suspension or termination of parental authority
7. Solo parents (Rep. Act No. 8972)
L. EMANCIPATION
1. Cause of emancipation
2. Effect of emancipation
M. SUMMARY JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS IN THE FAMILY
CODE
N. USE OF SURNAMES
0. ABSENCE
1. Provisional measures in case of absence
2. Declaration of absence
3. Administration of the property of the absentee
4. Presumption of death
P. CIVIL REGISTRAR
II. PROPERTY
A. CLASSIFICATION OF PROPERTY
1. Immovables
2. Movables
B. OWNERSHIP
1. Bundle of rights
a. Actions to recover ownership and possession of real property
and its distinctions
b. Actions for recovery of possession of movable property
2. Distinction between real and personal rights
3. Modes of acquiring ownership
4. Limitations of ownership
C. ACCESSION
1. Right to hidden treasure
2. Rules of accession
a. For immovables
b. For movables
D. QUIETING OF TITLE
1. Requisites
2. Distinctions between quieting title and removing/preventing a
cloud
3. Prescription/non-prescription of action
E. Co-OWNERSHIP
1. Characteristics of co-ownership
2. Sources of co-ownership
3. Rights of co-owners
4. Termination of co-ownership
F. POSSESSION
1. Characteristics
2. Acquisition of possession
3. Effects of possession
4. Loss or unlawful deprivation of a movable
5. Possession in concept of owner, holder, in one's own name, and
in name of another
6. Rights of the possessor
7. Loss or termination of possession
G. USUFRUCT
1. Characteristics
2. Classification
3. Rights and obligations of usufructuary
4. Rights of the owner
5. Extinction, termination, and extinguishment
H. EASEMENTS
1. Characteristics
2. Classification
3. Modes of acquiring easements
4. Rights and obligations of the owners of the dominant and
servient estates
5. Modes of extinguishment
I. NUISANCE
1. Nuisance per se
2. Nuisance per accidens
3. Liabilities
4. No prescription
5. Criminal prosecution
6. Judgment with abatement
7. Extrajudicial abatement
8. Special injury to individual
9. Right of individual to abate a public nuisance
10. Right to damages
11. Defenses to action
12. Who may sue on private nuisance
J. MODES OF ACQUIRING OWNERSHIP
1. Occupation
2. Donation
3. Prescription
III. PRESCRIPTION
A. TYPES OF PRESCRIPTION
1. Acquisitive
a. Ordinary
b. Extraordinary
2. Extinctive
a. Characteristics
b. Requisites
c. Periods
B. WHEN PRESCRIPTION IS INAPPLICABLE
1. By offender
2. Registered lands
3. Actions to demand right of way; to abate a nuisance
4. Action to quiet title if plaintiff is in possession
5. Void contracts
6. Action to demand partition; distinguished from !aches
7. Property of public dominion
C. PRESCRIPTION OR LIMITATION OF ACTIONS
1. To recover movables
2. To recover immovables
3. Other actions
D. INTERRUPTION
IV. SUCCESSION
A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
1. Definition
2. Succession occurs at the moment of death
3. Kinds of Successors
B. TESTAMENTARY SUCCESSION
1. Wills
2. Institution of heirs
3. Substitution of heirs
4. Conditional testamentary dispositions and testamentary
dispositions with a term
5. Legitime
C. LEGAL OR INTESTATE SUCCESSION
1. General provisions
a. Relationship
b. Right of representation
2. Order of intestate succession
D. PROVISIONS COMMON TO TESTATE AND INTESTATE
SUCCESSION
1. Right of accretion
2. Capacity to succeed by will or intestacy
3. Acceptance and repudiation of the inheritance
4. Collation
5. Partition and distribution of estate
