It is that currency which the debtor can compel the creditor to accept in payment of all debts, public or private.

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• Where the debtor has various debts of the same kind in favor of the same creditor and on the due date the debtor does not have sufficient funds to cover all the debts, the debtor may avail of
• Debtor owes Creditor P20, 000. On the due date of the obligation, Debtor could not pay. Debtor instead offered his TV set worth P20,000 in payment of the obligation. Creditor agrees.
• Mr. Debtor owes Mr. Creditor P100, 000. On the due date, Mr. Debtor delivers a cashier’s check for the full amount. Mr. Creditor refuses to accept the check.
• Mr. Debtor owes Mr. Creditor as follows: P10, 000 due February 5; P10, 000 due March 5 and P10, 000 due April 5, all during the current year. Mr. Debtor has only P10, 000 and cannot pay all his obligations. If Mr. Debtor decides to pay P10, 000, the amount shall apply:
• Debtor owes Creditor P500,000. The debt is secured by a chattel mortgage on Debtor’s car. On the due date of the obligation, Creditor is paid by Third Person who has no interest in the obligation either as guarantor or surety. There is likewise no stipulation as to Third Person’s right to pay.
• Mr. Debtor executed a promissory note in favor of Mr. Creditor in the amount of P100, 000. The debt is secured by a pledge on a ring owned by Mr. Debtor. Which among the following is most likely correct?
• Mr. Debtor is domiciled in Quezon City while Mr. Creditor is domiciled in Manila. Payment is to be made in
• Andrea wrote Bernardo a letter offering to sell a piece of land. Andrea gave Bernardo two months within which to pay the price of P500,000. After 50 days Andrea informed Bernardo that she is increasing the price of the land to P700, 000. Can Bernardo compel Andrea to accept the P500,000 first offered and execute the deed of sale?
• It is the substitution or change of an obligation by another, which extinguishes or modifies the first either changing its object or principal condition, or substituting another in place of the debtor, or subrogating a third in the right of the creditor.
• When the characters of the creditor and debtor are merged in one and the same person, there is extinguishment of the obligation by,