Practice question
A plaintiff asserts several causes against one defendant, each principally for recovery of money. She proposes to use only the smallest claim as the jurisdictional test for their proper joinder. Under Rule 2, Section 5(d), which is correct?
- Only the earliest debt counts.
- The aggregate amount claimed is the jurisdictional test when all the causes are principally for recovery of money.
- Only the defendant's preferred claim counts.
- No amount can ever matter.
- The plaintiff can choose any arbitrary total.
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/am_19-10-20-sc_2019.html — Rule 2, Sections 1–6.
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