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Adoracion E. Cruz, et al. Vs. CA, et al.

ADORACION E. CRUZ, THELMA DEBBIE E. CRUZ and GERRY E CRUZ, petitioners, vs. COURT OF APPEALS and SPOUSES ELISEO and VIRGINIA MALOLOS, respondents.

G.R. No. 126713 | 1998-07-27

D E C I S I O N

PANGANIBAN, J:

Contracts constitute the law between the parties. They must be read together and interpreted in a manner that reconciles and gives life to all of them. The intent of the parties, as shown by the clear language used, prevails over post facto explanations that find no support from the words employed by the parties or from their contemporary and subsequent acts showing their understanding of such contracts. Furthermore, a subsequent agreement cannot novate or change by implication a previous one, unless the old and the new contracts are, on every point, incompatible with each other. Finally, collateral facts...