Sample Questionnaire - Obligation and Contracts - Civil Code

Here's a sample questionnaire in my 2nd year in Law School. You may answer them below the comment box and let us exchange answers without looking at the book. 

1. Give and explain the two (2) different kinds of estoppel.

2. Can trust be proved by oral evidence?

3. Can stolen property be acquired through prescription?

4. Can property belonging to the state be acquired through prescription?

5. What are the essential elements of laches?

6. Distinguish Prescription from Laches.

7. To mislead others, two brothers, Finn and Jake , drew up a plan where Finn, although the registered owner of a parcel of land, admitted that Jake was really the owner. May Jake or his successors-in-interest claim ownership over the land by virtue of such written admission by Finn?

8. H, widower sold conjugal property, registered under his name only, to X, an innocent purchaser, who was able to register the property in his (X) name. Twenty (20) years later, the heirs of W, the wife of H, sued for annulment of the sale with respect to the one-half of the land. Will the case prosper?

9. Give the concept of fortuitous event. How does it affect the obligation of the debtor?

10. What is the test to determine whether a person is negligent before he can be held liable for a quasi-delict?