I'm Giancarlo Enrico S. Pozon, a Wushu instructor, investor and Barrister... That's right, Barrister; I graduated from law school and took the Bar Exams, now I'm waiting for the results. I created this blog to make Philippine Law easy to understand for the average person. It's all about free legal advice. There are many law blogs. But the problem is that many of them are written for lawyers and law students. They use words that can't be understood by ordinary people.
Many lawyers, judges and law students consider themselves as superior to most human beings because of their knowledge of the law. It bothers me since the law is supposed to serve society. Since the law is meant to serve society as a whole, it is important that is must be understood by everybody.
This does not mean that we should all become lawyers. It means that although law is a highly specialized profession, the first duty of everybody in this profession is to make the law understandable to all; that's why all these articles are free legal advice.
Like I said, this blog is about law -but it's for the ordinary people, not the lawyers. It's for the ordinary folk so they will know what is good and bad for them, and that making them aware of the law will help us all improve society as a whole. This is free legal advice for everybody!
There are 2 kinds of defenses in negotiable instruments: personal and real
Real Defenses
1.) Minority
2.) Forgery
3.) Non-delivery of an incomplete instrument
4.) Material alteration
5.) Ultra vires act of the corporation
6.) Fraud in factum/esse contractus
7.) illegality (if declared void for any purpose)
8.) Force/violence
9.) Lack of authority
10.) Prescription
11.) Discharge in insolvency
Personal Defenses
1.) Failure/absence of consideration
2.) Illegal consideration
3.) Non-delivery of a complete instrument
4.) Conditional delivery of a complete instrument
5.) Fraud in inducement
6.) Filling up blank not within authority
7.) Duress/intimidation
8.) Filling up blank beyond reasonable time
9.) Transfer in breach of faith
10.) Mistake
11.) Insertion of wrong date
12.) Ante-dating or post-dating for illegal/fraudulent purposes
Real/absolute defenses attach to the instrument and are available against all holders, whether in due course or not, but only the entitled party/ies can raise them. Personal/equitable defenses are available only against the holder standing in privity with the party entitled to the defense or those who don't have the rights of a holder in due course.
2 comments:
thank you sir for the explanation.
that was a very stupid explanation
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