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  2. Philippine legal codes - Wikipedia

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    Thus, while the Civil Code seeks to govern all aspects of private law in the Philippines, a Republic Act such as Republic Act No. 9048 would concern itself with a more limited field, as in that case, the correction of entries in the civil registry. Still, the amendment of Philippine legal codes is accomplished through the passage of Republic Acts.

  3. Civil Code of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The great mass of disputes between private persons over civil and property relations are resolved by applying the provisions of the Civil Code. With over 2,000 specific provisions, the Civil Code attempts to anticipate all possible questions arising from civil and property relations and prescribe a definitive solution for these problems.

  4. List of Philippine legal terms - Wikipedia

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    Includes "eFiling", a way to submit pleadings and other court documents electronically. [4] E.O. N/A: English Abbreviation for Executive Order. estafa: scam, fraud, racket Spanish Fraud: expediente: file, dossier Spanish As special rules apply to the release of the rollo, the office of each member of the Supreme Court is allowed to take a copy ...

  5. Search and seizure - Wikipedia

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    Dareton police search the vehicle of a suspected drug smuggler in Wentworth, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, near the border with Victoria.. Search and seizure is a procedure used in many civil law and common law legal systems by which police or other authorities and their agents, who, suspecting that a crime has been committed, commence a search of a person's property and ...

  6. Asset freezing - Wikipedia

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    The legal order itself is in the form of an injunction, which in Commonwealth jurisdictions is also known as a freezing order, Mareva injunction, Mareva order or Mareva regime, after the 1975 case Mareva Compania Naviera SA v International Bulkcarriers SA, [2] although the first recorded instance of such an order in English jurisprudence was Nippon Yusen Kaisha v Karageorgis, [3] decided one ...

  7. Police Cannot Seize Property Indefinitely After an Arrest ...

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    The plaintiffs each had their property seized by D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). Five of the plaintiffs were arrested during a Black Lives Matter protest in the Adams Morgan ...

  8. Judiciary of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The Supreme Court (SC) is the highest court of the land and is the court of last resort. [ 1 ] : 6 It is led by the Chief Justice , who is joined by 14 Associate Justices . [ 1 ] : 39 The court has expansive powers and a constitutional responsibility to oversee other branches of government, able even to overrule the discretion of political and ...

  9. Court of Appeals of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Pursuant to the Constitution, the Court of Appeals "reviews not only the decisions and orders of the Regional Trial Courts awards, judgments, final orders or resolutions of, or authorized by administrative agencies exercising quasi-judicial functions mentioned in Rule 43 of the 1997 Rules of Civil Procedure, plus the National Amnesty Commission ...