Practice question
A school-van business carries enrolled students for agreed fees on recurring home-school trips. It says serving students instead of unrestricted roadside passengers conclusively makes it private. Which is correct under Perena?
- Only roadside pickups can be common carriage
- The school-service clientele does not by itself create the claimed exclusion; Perena treats the qualifying paid school service as common carriage.
- Every student must own the van
- Education automatically eliminates carriage duties
- The service becomes a private airline
Legal references
- Spouses Perena v. Spouses Zarate, G.R. No. 157917, August 29, 2012, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2012/aug2012/gr_157917_2012.html
- Civil Code, Articles 1732-1733, 1745-1754 and 1758-1763: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html
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