Lapu Lapu vs. Court of Appeals

April 30, 2018 | Author: Dianne Delostrico Salto | Category: Parol Evidence Rule, Loans, Promissory Note, Banks, Private Law
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LAPULAPU FOUNDATION, INC. and ELIAS Q. TAN vs. COURT OF APPEALS (Seventeenth (Seventeen th Division) Divisio n) and ALLIED BANIN! CORP. CORP.

G.R. No. 126006. January 29, 2004 By: Dianne D. Salto

DOCTRINE"

Eviden Evidence ce of a prior prior or contem contempor porane aneous ous verbal verbal agreem agreement ent is genera generally lly not  admissible to vary, contradict or defeat the operation of a valid contract. While  parol evidence is admiss admissibl ible e to explai explain n the meaning meaning of writte written n contr contract acts, s, it  cann cannot ot serv serve e the the purp purpos ose e of inco incorp rpor orat atin ing g into into the the cont contra ract ct addi additi tion onal al contemporaneous conditions which are not mentioned at all in writing, unless there there has been fraud fraud or mistak mistake. e. No such such allega allegatio tion n had been been made made by the  petitioners in this case. FACTS"

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