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Practice question: Threefold Rule

Multiple Choice Hard Jurisprudence

Practice question

Five final successive fixed terms are fourteen, thirteen, twelve, eleven and ten years. No credits or other adjustments apply. An official triples the sixty-year aggregate to 180 years and then claims any cap is optional. What ceiling applies?
  1. Forty years
  2. One hundred eighty years
  3. Sixty years
  4. Forty-two years despite the outer ceiling
  5. Ten years

Legal references

  • Commonwealth Act217 Section2, amended RPC Article70; Section3 Article71 for contrast: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/29/15348

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