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  2. Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act of 1997 - Wikipedia

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    Filing of Case Directly With the Commission not Allowed. — No case shall be brought directly to the Commission except in cases where the Commission exercises exclusive and original jurisdiction. and RULE IV, Precondition for Adjudication SECTION 9. Exhaustion of remedies provided under customary laws.

  3. Philippine legal codes - Wikipedia

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    Judicial precedents of the Philippine Supreme Court were accepted as binding, a practice more attuned to common law jurisdictions. Eventually, the Philippine legal system emerged in such a way that while the practice of codification remained popular, the courts were not barred from invoking principles developed under the common law, [1] or from ...

  4. Equitable remedy - Wikipedia

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    Equitable remedies are distinguished from "legal" remedies (which are available to a successful claimant as of right) by the discretion of the court to grant them. In common law jurisdictions, there are a variety of equitable remedies, but the principal remedies are: injunction [5] [6] specific performance; account of profits; rescission ...

  5. Legal remedy - Wikipedia

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    A legal remedy, also referred to as judicial relief or a judicial remedy, is the means with which a court of law, usually in the exercise of civil law jurisdiction, enforces a right, imposes a penalty, or makes another court order to impose its will in order to compensate for the harm of a wrongful act inflicted upon an individual.

  6. Court of equity - Wikipedia

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    The requirement post-Judicature system allowed a claimant to attend only one court, rather than two, to enforce both the common law and equitable principles regarding the breach and remedy. Associated with new remedies, this jurisdiction empowers an applicant to pursue equitable relief where it can be established that the appropriate relief ...

  7. Adequate remedy - Wikipedia

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    "Adequate Remedies" refers to the legal remedy, and equitable remedies that apply to the administrative or state court remedies. [4] The court was unable to grant any equitable remedies such as specific performance where there is a plain legal remedy such as monetary damages. "Adequate Remedies" continues to appear in the federal case between ...

  8. Extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances in the ...

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    Philippine extrajudicial killings are politically motivated murders committed by government officers, punished by local and international law or convention.They include assassinations; deaths due to strafing or indiscriminate firing; massacre; summary execution is done if the victim becomes passive before the moment of death (i.e., abduction leading to death); assassination means forthwith or ...

  9. Contract - Wikipedia

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    Under Philippine law, rescission creates an obligation to return anything that was the object of the contract as well as any profit derived therefrom, and rescission is consequently available only where the party seeking the remedy is able to return or provide reparation for such things. [241]