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Practice question: Properties Exempt from Execution

Multiple Choice Hard

Practice question

A fisherman owns four expensive boats used in a fleet business. He invokes paragraph(h) as an exemption for the entire fleet without regard to value. No separate statutory protection is shown. Which textual restriction defeats that sweeping claim?
  1. The paragraph specifies one boat and accessories with a PHP100,000 total-value ceiling
  2. Every fishing business asset is unlimitedly exempt
  3. The boat count and value are expressly irrelevant
  4. Only a foreign vessel can be protected
  5. The creditor must become a fisherman first

Legal references

  • Rules of Court Rule39 relevant sections: https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/rc_1-71_civil.html Section13(c),(e)–(h),(j)–(m), subject to its express exceptions.

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