Text of the provision

Art. 1112. Persons with capacity to alienate property may renounce prescription already obtained, but not the right to prescribe in the future. Prescription is deemed to have been tacitly renounced when the renunciation results from acts which imply the abandonment of the right acquired.

(1935)

Civil Code of the Philippines, Republic Act No. 386, approved June 18, 1949, effective August 30, 1950. Reproduced in full; verified verbatim against the LawPhil and ChanRobles official-text renderings.

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Persons with capacity to alienate property may renounce prescription already obtained, expressly or tacitly — but not the right to prescribe in the future. Tacit renunciation results from acts implying abandonment of the right.

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