During my students days as well as in the first three decades of my practice of law. I have used several books on "Obligations and Contracts" written by excellent authors. Today, many of our renowed civilist who wrote books on Civil Law like Justice J.B.L. Reyes, Justice Edgardo L. Paras, Justice Ramon C. Aquino, Justice Desiderio P. Jurado, Senator Ambrosio Padilla had already gone to the Great Beyond. They left a great chasm in the legal academe. Among the living well-known civilist, we have the venerable Senator Arturo M. Tolentino, Justice Ricardo C. Puno, Justice Eduardo P. Caguioa and Justice Jose C. bitug. The latter is the youngest of the venerables in Civil Laws and is now an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.