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2007-04-03 |
AUSTRIA-MARTINEZ, J. |
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| We agree with the findings of the trial court and the CA that petitioner's act of trying to deprive respondent of the security of her loan by executing an affidavit of loss of the title and instituting a petition for the issuance of a new owner's duplicate copy of TCT No. 168173 entitles respondent to moral damages. Moral damages may be awarded in culpa contractual or breach of contract cases when the defendant acted fraudulently or in bad faith. Bad faith does not simply connote bad judgment or negligence; it imports a dishonest purpose or some moral obliquity and conscious doing of wrong. It partakes of the nature of fraud.[33] | |||||