Practice question
A defendant wants additional time to file a reply and invokes the answer-extension rule as an automatic entitlement. Which Section11 limitation matters?
- Motions to extend pleadings other than an answer are prohibited and treated as a scrap of paper
- Every pleading gets an automatic thirty-day extension
- The title reply automatically means answer
- The opponent’s silence grants any period
- There are no extension restrictions
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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