Page 316 - Important Provisions of The New Civil Code

Article 1256. If the creditor to whom tender of

payment has been made refuses without just

cause to accept it, the debtor shall be released

from responsibility by the consignation of the

thing or sum due.

Consignation alone shall produce the same

effect in the following cases:

(1) When the creditor is absent or unknown,

or does not appear at the place of payment;

(2) When he is incapacitated to receive the

payment at the time it is due;

(3) When, without just cause, he refuses to

give a receipt;

(4) When two or more persons claim the

same right to collect;

(5) When the title of the obligation has been

lost. (1176a)