When a right to sue upon a civil obligation has lapsed by extinctive prescription, the obligor who voluntary performs the contract cannot recover what he has delivered or the value of the service he has rendered.
Kung kalian ang karapatan na magdemanda para sa sibil na obligasyon ay lumipas na para sa taga na preskripsyon, ang obligor na nagkusa na gumawa ng kontrata ay hindi nya na maaaring makuha ang kanyang dinala o ang halaga ng kanyang ginawang serbisyo.
Example:
A’s debt to C has been extinguished by prescription. Yet A, knowing of the prescription, voluntary paid the prescribed debt. A cannot now recover what has paid C. Prescribed debt may indeed give rise to new obligation.
Obligations and Contracts 