Practice question
A litigant says every foreign prescription provision must be procedural without examining its nature or a borrowing statute. What does Cadalin require?
- Accept the label solely because counsel prefers it.
- Ignore all limitation questions permanently.
- Apply whichever period yields the larger recovery automatically.
- Treat limitation as proof of foreign citizenship.
- Examine characterization and the applicable borrowing framework rather than assume a universal label.
Legal references
- Cadalin v. POEA, G.R.104776 and consolidated cases, December5,1994, MAIN: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1994/dec1994/gr_104776_1994.html
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