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4 Ateneo L.J. 1 (1954-1955)

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   ATENEO LAW JOURNAL





 PHILIPPINE   TRUST RECEIPTS: AN
 EXAMINATION OF PHILIPPINE NATIONAL
 BANK   v. VIUDA   e HIJOS  de ANGEL   JOSE

 by SIMEON  N. FERRER *




    I. Nature, Forms  and Validity of the Trust Receipt
          Transaction.

    What  is a trust receipt? The present writer recalls
that this was the first question in the Commercial Law
Bar examination of 1951.  He recalls too that as soon as
the examinees read the question, a great many were shak-
ing their heads, indicating that the term trust receipt
was strange to them. Some  thought it was some form of
technical trust. Many  equated it with the corporation
voting trust.
   Despite the fact that the trust receipt agreement as
a security device has been used by our business and bank-
ing community  since the twenties,' it has been hardly,
if at all, discussed in our law classrooms or in commercial
law and  credit transactions textbooks. To be sure, there
is not a piece of trust receipt legislation in our country.
Whatever  law we have on the subject may -be gleaned
from the reported cases. Resort to case law in a country
   * L1.B., Ateneo de Manila, 1951.
   1 People v. Yu Chai Ho, 53 Phil. 874, is a 1928 criminal case
involving the use of a trust receipt.

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