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Article 2162

RA 386 · Civil Code of the PhilippinesKey provision

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He shall be exempt from the obligation to restore who, believing in good faith that the payment was being made of a legitimate and subsisting claim, destroyed the document, or allowed the action to prescribe, or gave up...

Official text — RA 386

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