Text of the provision
Art. 1357. If the law requires a document or other special form, as in the acts and contracts enumerated in the following article, the contracting parties may compel each other to observe that form, once the contract has been perfected. This right may be exercised simultaneously with the action upon the contract.
(1279a)
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
When the law requires a document or special form (as in the acts listed in Art. 1358), the parties may compel each other to observe that form once the contract is perfected — exercisable together with the action on the contract.
Related provisions
- Article 1356 — Form of Contracts.
- Article 1359 — Reformation of Instruments.
Cases interpreting this article
- Authorities on this article will be added here as each is verified against primary sources.