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2020 Remedial Law Notes
2020 Remedial Law Notes
***Substantive law is that part of the law which creates, defines and regulates
rights, or which regulates the right and duties which give rise to a cause of action;
that part of the law which courts are established to administer; as opposed
to adjective or remedial law, which prescribes the method of
enforcing rights or obtain redress for their invasions. (36 C.J. 27; 52
C.J.S. 1026)
1. The Regional Trial Court has jurisdiction over actions for cancellation of
original certificates of title of land arising from certificates of ancestral land
title. The Regional Trial Court also has the power to pass upon the validity
of the proceedings of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples
(NCIP);
2. The Municipal Trial Court has exclusive jurisdiction over actions for
enforcement of an amicable settlement executed before the Barangay
regardless of the amount involved pursuant to Section 417 of the Local
Government Code;
3. Allegation of the assessed value of the real property in an action to recover
the same is jurisdictional. Failure to allege assessed value is fatal and is not
waivable.
4. Documents such as tax declarations attached to the complaint are
considered part of the latter.
5. Jurisdiction on real property is not based on market value. The court
cannot take judicial notice of the assessed value of the real property.
6. Real property's assessed value cannot be presumed or estimated.
7. Jurisdiction over real actions is not determined by the answer, but
by the allegations in the complaint.
8. The Department of Agrarian Reform Secretary has exclusive and original
jurisdiction over actions to cancel emancipation patents, Certificate of
Land Ownership Awards (CLOAs) and certificates of title issued under the
agrarian reform program.
14. As a rule, Rule 65 can only be used against the exercise of judicial or quasi-
judicial power.
15. An ordinary Regional Trial Court has jurisdiction over commercial cases.
Special commercial courts are a mere special designation but such special
courts have no exclusive jurisdiction over commercial cases. It would be
wrong for a Regional Trial Court to dismiss a commercial case filed before
it simply because it is a non-commercial court. The remedy is re-docketing.
17. The Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB), now known as the
Humans Settlement Adjudication Commission (HSAC), has jurisdiction
over cases for annulment of mortgage agreements over subdivision lots or
condominium units made by developers without prior HLURB/HSAC
approval. HSAC also has jurisdiction over rescission of purchases of
memorial park lots.
19. Under barangay conciliation laws, the actual residence requirement refers
to the real party-in-interest. The residence of the attorney-in-fact not
important.
21. The parties may go directly to court even without prior referral to barangay
conciliation in the following instances: (1) where the accused is under
detention; (2) where a person has otherwise been deprived of personal
liberty calling for habeas corpus proceedings; (3) where actions are coupled
with provisional remedies such as preliminary injunction, attachment,
delivery of personal property and support pendente lite; and (4) where the
action may otherwise be barred by the statute of limitations.
23.A motion to dismiss due to lack of prior barangay conciliation may still be
filed in cases covered by Rule 70 and the Rules of Summary Procedure. In
such cases, mere suspension of the proceedings would not suffice; the
proper court action is case dismissal.
25.Interests and penalties due at the time of the filing of the complaint and
claimed therein shall be added in the computation of docket fees.
26. Quieting of title cannot be joined with an ordinary action because the
former is one covered by special rules.
29.