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Practice question: The State and its Political Subdivisions

Multiple Choice Medium

Practice question

A student argues that a province cannot hold property because only a natural person can have juridical personality. Which is correct?
  1. The student is correct because provinces have no legal existence.
  2. The student is correct unless every resident signs.
  3. The student is correct because property always belongs personally to the governor.
  4. The argument fails because the Code recognizes political subdivisions as juridical persons.
  5. The argument fails because every province is a natural person.

Legal references

  • Civil Code Articles44(1),45 and46; https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html
  • 1987 Constitution ArticleXVI Section3; https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html

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