Article 1251

Payment shall be made in the place designated in the obligation.

There being no express stipulation and if the undertaking is to deliver a determinate thing, the payment shall be made wherever the thing might be at the moment the obligation was constituted.

In any other case the place of payment shall be the domicile of the debtor.

If the debtor changes his domiciles in bad faith or after he has incurred in delay, the additional expenses shall be borne by him.

These provisions are without prejudice to venue under the Rules of Court.

Ang kabayaran ay dapat gawin sa lugar kung saan itinalaga ang obligasyon.

Na walang nakasaad na stipulasyon at kung ang layunin ay magdala ng bagay, ang kabayaran ay dapat gawin kung saan ang bagay sa sandaling ang obligasyon ay ginawa.

Sa kahit anong kaso ang lugar ng pagbabayad ay dapat sa tirahan ng nangutang.

Kung ang nagutang ay nagbago ng lugar na tinitirhan sa masamang intension/hangarin o pagkatapos siyang mahuli sa pagbabayad, ang dagdag na gastos ay maipapataw sa kanya.

Ang probisyon na ito ay walang kinalalaman sa lugar na tinutukoy sa Rules of Court.

Venue is the place where a court suit or action must be filed or instituted.

Domicile is the place of the person’s habitual residence; the place where he has his true fixed permanent home and to which place he, whenever he is absent, has the intention of returning.

Residence is only an element of domicile. It simple requires bodily presence as an inhabitant in a given place.

Example

Mikibihon obliged himself to deliver to Pancitulit a specific pack of noodle. It was agreed that the noodle shall be delivered at Pancitulit’s house. The house of Pancitulit shall be the place of delivery.