Practice question
Counsel files a document consisting only of three replacement paragraphs and says the court must assemble the amended complaint from several old versions. Which Section7 requirement answers?
- File the entire amended pleading, indicating the amendments properly
- The court must reconstruct all versions itself
- Only altered punctuation should be filed
- A new pleading must omit every unchanged allegation
- The opponent must guess which paragraphs survive
Legal references
- 2019 Civil Procedure Amendments, relevant current Rules9–12: https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/am_19-10-20-sc_2019.html
- Rules of Court, relevant unchanged provisions of Rules9–12: https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/rc_1-71_civil.html
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