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Personal and Real

Explore Personal and Real in Classification of Actions for the Philippine Bar. Browse subtopics and published practice questions, then take a quiz or answer…

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  1. A real action, in the Rule4 sense, affects what?
  2. A suit solely to collect an unsecured personal loan, seeking only a money judgment and no real-property relief, is ordi…
  3. Under Rule4’s ordinary rule, where are real actions commenced and tried?
  4. An owner seeks recovery of title to and possession of a parcel from an adverse occupant. The defendant calls it persona…
  5. A plaintiff seeks only damages for injury to property and does not seek recovery of land, possession or an interest in …
  6. A complaint is captioned Damages but its material allegations and principal prayer ask that the defendant’s title be ca…
  7. A debtor owns a house in Cebu but is sued solely for an unrelated unsecured loan, with no attachment, foreclosure or ti…
  8. Distinguish real and personal actions using a title-recovery suit and an unsecured collection suit.
  9. Why does a claim for damages arising from injury to property not automatically make an action real?
  10. A title-recovery complaint includes incidental damages. Explain why the damages prayer does not necessarily make venue …
  11. Is a demand for the conveyance of a specified parcel necessarily personal merely because it is captioned specific perfo…
  12. Under Hernando, must every suit to nullify a transaction mentioning land automatically be classified as real?