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Practice question: Affirmative Defenses (Rule 8, Sec. 12)

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Practice question

Within what period does Section 12(c) direct the court to resolve the affirmative defenses listed above it?
  1. Thirty calendar days from filing of the answer.
  2. Thirty years after judgment.
  3. Only after the appeal ends.
  4. One day from the plaintiff's birth.
  5. Only after every witness has emigrated.

Legal references

  • https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/am_19-10-20-sc_2019.html — Rule 8, Section 12, read with Rule 9, Section 1.

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