Determinate vs Indeterminate PDF

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Based on your own understanding, define and distinguish SPECIFIC (determinate) thing from GENERIC (indeterminate) thing. A thing could be considered specific or determinate if it has a distinctive attribute that segregates it from the rest of its class. An example of this is a Mercedes Benz car model 2000 with a plate no. AAC 2431. When it comes to determinate things, the obligor couldn’t substitute it with another even though it's of the same kind and quality unless the obligor would seek consent from the obligee. However, generic or indeterminate things are identified only by their kind or species. It is something not particularized or specified but it has a reference to a class. When an obligor is bound to give a car, he/she can give anything of the same class as long as it is the same kind....