Practice question
May persons who transact under a common name without forming an entity with juridical personality be sued under that common name as provided in Section 15?
- No such defendant arrangement is permitted.
- Only if every member first becomes a corporation.
- Yes.
- Only if the common name has a foreign spelling.
- Only after a criminal conviction.
Legal references
- Rules of Court, Rule 3 Sections 12-15 and 19, unchanged provisions read with current amendments: https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/rc_1-71_civil.html
- 2019 Amendments to Civil Procedure, Rules 2-4 and relevant Rule 10 Section 3, current operative provisions: https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/am_19-10-20-sc_2019.html
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