§ 82101 Obligation Extinguished
§ 82102 Performance by one of Several Joint Debtors
§ 82103 Performance to one of Joint Creditors
§ 82104 Effect of Direction by Creditor
§ 82105 Partial Performance
§ 82106 What is Payment
§ 82107 Application of General Performance
§ 82201 Obligation Extinguished by Offer
§ 82203 By whom to be Made
§ 82204 To whom to be Made
§ 82205 Where Offer Made
§ 82206 When Offer must be Made
§ 82207 Same: When no Fixed Time
§ 82208 Compensation after Delay
§ 82209 Offer in Good Faith
§ 82210 Conditional Offer
§ 82211 Ability, Willingness Essential
§ 82212 Production not Necessary
§ 82213 Thing Offered to be Kept Separate
§ 82214 Performance of Condition Precedent
§ 82215 Written Receipts
§ 82216 Extinction of Pecuniary Obligation
§ 82217 Objection to Mode
§ 82218 Title to thing Offered
§ 82219 Custody of thing Offered
§ 82220 Affect on Offer of Accessories of Obligation
§ 82221 Creditor\’s Retention of thing he Refuses to Accept
§ 82301 What Excuses Performance
§ 82302 Effect of Prevention of Performance
§ 82303 Prevention by other Cause
§ 82304 Effect of Refusal to Accept Before Offer
§ 82401 What are Accords
§ 82402 Effect of Accord
§ 82403 What is Satisfaction
§ 82404 Part Performance
§ 82501 What is Novation
§ 82502 Modes of Novation
§ 82503 Novation is Contract
§ 82504 Rescission of Novation
§ 82601 Obligation Extinguished by Release
§ 82602 Certain Claims Unaffected by General Release
§ 82603 Of one or Several Joint Debtors
§ 82604 Release in Personal Injury

Terms Used In Guam Code > Title 18 > Chapter 82 - Obligations Extinguished

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.