Text of the provision
Art. 389. The administration shall cease in any of the following cases:
(1) When the absentee appears personally or by means of an agent;
(2) When the death of the absentee is proved and his testate or intestate heirs appear;
(3) When a third person appears, showing by a proper document that he has acquired the absentee's property by purchase or other title. In these cases the administrator shall cease in the performance of his office, and the property shall be at the disposal of those who may have a right thereto.
(190)
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
The administration ends when the absentee appears personally or through an agent; when his death is proved and his testate or intestate heirs appear; or when a third person shows by proper document that he acquired the property by purchase or other title. In each case the administrator stops acting and the property passes to those entitled to it.
Related provisions
- Article 388 — Wife Administrator Needs Authority.
- Article 390 — Presumption of Death by Absence.
Cases interpreting this article
- Authorities on this article will be added here as each is verified against primary sources.