Foreign Judgments

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1. Under Rule39 §48(a), a qualifying foreign judgment upon a specific thing is described as having what effect?
2. Under Rule39 §48(b), a qualifying foreign judgment against a person is what as between the parties and successors in in…
3. Which is among the express grounds for repelling a foreign judgment under Rule39 §48?
4. A creditor presents a foreign money judgment and asks a Philippine sheriff to execute it immediately as though it were …
5. A party resists a properly proven foreign judgment solely by saying 'the foreign court should have believed me' without…
6. A litigant submits an unauthenticated extract of a private parenting arrangement and a few foreign procedural orders, b…
7. A party relies on a foreign judgment upon a specific thing and argues that the word 'conclusive' in §48(a) forbids any …
8. Distinguish the effects of a foreign specific-thing judgment and a foreign personal judgment under Rule39 §48.
9. Explain why a foreign money judgment is not automatically a Philippine execution writ.
10. Describe the relationship between proof of the foreign judgment, proof of relevant foreign law and the limited defenses…
11. Under current Rule132 Section24, can an applicable treaty prescribe the certificate or equivalent for a foreign officia…
12. Does the Section24 certificate itself constitute final proof that no Rule39 Section48 defense exists?