Text of the provision

Art. 2141. The provisions of this Code on pledge, insofar as they are not in conflict with the Chattel Mortgage Law shall be applicable to chattel mortgages.

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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 renderings and the Official Gazette, all three of which agree word for word.

What this article means

The closing article of the Chattel Mortgage chapter, immediately before the Title on Quasi-Contracts and Quasi-Delicts begins. Insofar as they do not conflict with the Chattel Mortgage Law (Act No. 1508), the Civil Code's provisions on pledge apply to chattel mortgages as well. It is the Code's way of avoiding a second, redundant set of rules for a security device (chattel mortgage) that shares much of its structure with pledge, while still deferring to the specialized statute where the two diverge.

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