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Valarao vs. Court of Appeals

ABELARDO VALARAO, GLORIOSA VALARAO and CARLOS VALARAO, petitioners, vs. COURT OF APPEALS and MEDEN A. ARELLANO, respondents.

G.R. No. 130347 | 1999-03-03

D E C I S I O N
 
PANGANIBAN, J.:
 
Article 1592 of the Civil Code applies only to contracts of sale, and not to contracts to sell or conditional sales where title passes to the vendee only upon full payment of the purchase price. Furthermore, in order to enforce the automatic forfeiture clause in a deed of conditional sale, the vendors have the burden of proving a contractual breach on the part of the vendee.
 
The Case

Before us is a Petition for Review assailing the June 13, 1997 Decision of the Court of Appeals (CA)[1] which reversed and set aside the October 10, 1994 Decision[2] of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) of...