SESSION 12

EXTINGUISHMENT OF SALES
A. Causes
Art. 1600
Article 1600. Sales are extinguished by the same causes as all other obligations, by those
stated in the preceding articles of this Title, and by conventional or legal redemption.

Art. 1231
Article 1231. Obligations are extinguished:
(1) By payment or performance;
(2) By the loss of the thing due;
(3) By the condonation or remission of the debt;
(4) By the confusion or merger of the rights of creditor and debtor;
(5) By compensation;
(6) By novation.
Other causes of extinguishment of obligations, such as annulment, rescission, fulfillment of a
resolutory condition, and prescription, are governed elsewhere in this Code.

Art. 1626
Article 1626. The debtor who, before having knowledge of the assignment, pays his creditor
shall be released from the obligation.

Art. 1634
ARTICLE 1634. When a credit or other incorporeal right in litigation is sold, the debtor shall
have a right to extinguish it by reimbursing the assignee for the price the latter paid therefor,
the judicial costs incurred by him, and the interest on the price from the day on which the
same was paid.
A credit or other incorporeal right shall be considered in litigation from the time the complaint
concerning the same is answered.
The debtor may exercise his right within thirty days from the date the assignee demands
payment from him

Art. 1635
Article 1635. From the provisions of the preceding article shall be excepted the assignments
or sales made:
(1) To a co-heir or co-owner of the right assigned;
(2) To a creditor in payment of his credit;
(3) To the possessor of a tenement or piece of land which is subject to the right in
litigation assigned.

B. Redemption
1. Conventional