Page 23 - Important Provisions of The New Civil Code

BIRTH

Article 37. Juridical capacity, which is the

fitness to be the subject of legal relations, is

inherent in every natural person and is lost only

through death. Capacity to act, which is the

power to do acts with legal effect, is acquired

and may be lost. (n)

Article 38. Minority, insanity or imbecility, the

state of being a deaf-mute, prodigality and civil

interdiction are mere restrictions on capacity to

act, and do not exempt the incapacitated

person from certain obligations, as when the

latter arise from his acts or from property

relations, such as easements. (32a)