1. The general nature of law -- 2. 2. The sources of law -- 3. The law and the state -- 4. Law, the individual and society -- 5. The application of the law -- 6. The world legal systems -- 7. The history of Philippine law: The Pre-Spanish period -- 8. The history of the Philippine law : after the Spanish conquest -- 9. The outline of Philippine law -- 10. Persons -- 11. Marriage and legal separation -- 12. The family and family relations -- 13. Property -- 14. Possession -- 15. Ownership -- 16. Accession -- 17. The acquisition and extinction of ownership -- 18 Servitudes, Usufruct and easements -- 19. Succession -- 20. Obligations -- 21 Contracts -- 22. Trusts -- 23 . Sale -- 24. Barter or exchange -- 25. Lease -- 26. Labor relations -- 27. Partnership -- 28. Agency -- 29. Loan -- 30. Deposit -- 31. Pledge, mortgage, antichresis and chattel -- 32. Guaranty -- 33.Compromise and arbitration -- 34. Aleatory contracts -- 35. Quasi-contracts -- 36. Quasi-delicts -- 37. Damages -- 38. Concurrence and preference of credits -- 39. Commercial Law -- 40. Constitutional and administrative law -- 41. Criminal law -- 42. Procedure.

The purpose of this work is to present an integrated view of the legal system of the Philippines against a background of the elementary principles of jurisprudence and the rudiments of the legal history.