Practice question
Four successive fixed terms are nine, eight, seven and six months. No credits or other adjustments apply. The clerk mistakes months for years and orders twenty-seven years under the threefold rule. What is the correct service ceiling?
- Twenty-seven years
- Twenty-seven months
- Thirty years
- Forty years automatically
- Nine days
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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