Nature and Effects of Obligation

It is identified by its individuality.

• generic or indeterminate

• specific real obligation

• specific or determinate

• generic real obligation

Ordinary care or that diligence which an average (a reasonably prudent) person exercises over his own property.

• Another standard of care

• Factors to be considered

• Reason for debtor’s obligation

• Diligence of a good father of a family

It is identified only by its specie.

• determinate thing

• generic thing

Are produced by lands of any kind through cultivation or labor.

• Natural fruits

• Civil fruits

• Industrial fruits

Under what article is "the creditor has a right to the fruits of the thing from the time the obligation to deliver it arises. However, he shall acquire no real right over it until the same has been delivered to him."

• ART. 1166

• ART. 1168

• ART. 1164

• ART. 1244

It is particularly designated or physically segregated.

• specific or determinate

• generic real obligation

• generic or indeterminate

• specific real obligation

Only the debtor can comply with the obligation.

(a)  

Are the spontaneous products of the soil, and the young and other products of animals.

• Industrial fruits

• Natural fruits

• Civil fruits

It is directed against the whole world.

(a)  

These are the duties of debtor in obligation to give a determinate thing.

• To preserve or take care of the thing due.

• To deliver the fruits of the thing.

• To demand specific performance or fulfillment.

• To answer for damages in case of non-fulfillment or breach.

• To deliver its accessions and accessories.