Text of the provision

Art. 1342. Misrepresentation by a third person does not vitiate consent, unless such misrepresentation has created substantial mistake and the same is mutual.

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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.

What this article means

Misrepresentation by a third person does not vitiate consent — unless it created a substantial and mutual mistake. Contrast third-person violence (Art. 1336), which always annuls.

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Cases interpreting this article

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