6/5/2020 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly [5] Id. [6] Id. [7] Id. at 45-46. [8] Id. at 46. [9] Id. at 267-274. [10] Id. at 272. [11] Id. at 71. [12] Id. at 321-325. [13] Supra note I. [14] Supra note I, at 79. [15] Rollo, p. 47. [16] Section 3, Rule I, Book Ill of the Rules and Regulations Governing Overseas Employment. [17] Art 1356. Contracts shall be obligatory, in whatever form they may have been entered into, provided all the essential requisites for their validity are present. However, when the law requires that a contract be in some form in order that it may be valid or enforceable, or that a contract be proved in a certain way, that requirement is absolute and indispensable. In such cases, the right of the parties stated in the following article cannot be exercised. (1278a) xxxx Art. 1358. The following must appear in a public document: xxxx (3) The power to administer property, or any other power which has for its object an act appearing or which should appear in a public document, or should prejudice a third person; x x x x (R.A. 386, An Act To Ordain And Institute The Civil Code of the Philippines) [18] Skippers United Pacific, Inc. v. Maguad, G.R. No. 166363, August 15, 2006, 498 SCRA 639, 669. elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/61082 8/9