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OLIMPIA FERNANDEZ VDA. DE ZULUETA v. ISAURO B. OCTAVIANO

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2005-01-21
TINGA, J.
The perfected contract to sell imposed upon Babasanta the obligation to pay the balance of the purchase price. There being an obligation to pay the price, Babasanta should have made the proper tender of payment and consignation of the price in court as required by law.  Mere sending of a letter by the vendee expressing the intention to pay without the accompanying payment is not considered a valid tender of payment.[24] Consignation of the amounts due in court is essential in order to extinguish Babasanta's obligation to pay the balance of the purchase price.  Glaringly absent from the records is any indication that Babasanta even attempted to make the proper consignation of the amounts due, thus, the obligation on the part of the sellers to convey title never acquired obligatory force.