Category: Persons and Family Relations
Sources of Philippine Civil Law
1. Constitution
2. Administrative or general orders not contrary to the constitution.
3. Statutes, laws, presidential decrees, executive orders, or batas pambansa.
4. Jurisprudence and judicial customs.
5. Decisions of foreign courts if applicable.
6. Principles governing analogous cases.
7. Principles of legal hermeneutics.
8. Equity and general principles of law (morals).
