Practice question
All material contract facts are undisputed. The only issue is the legal effect of an agreed contractual provision under the applicable law, without reweighing evidence. How is the issue ordinarily characterized for Rule 45?
- As factual merely because a contract exists
- As necessarily outside every judicial review
- As an automatic new-trial request
- As a question of law on the stipulated facts
- As a request to evaluate witness credibility
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/rc_1-71_civil.html — Rule 45 sections 1–6, verified petition, legal questions, fifteen-day period, qualified thirty-day extension and discretionary review.
- https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2005/sep2005/gr_141524_2005.html — Neypes v. Court of Appeals, G.R. No. 141524, September 14, 2005, fresh-period principle applied to Rule 45.
- https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2025/jan2025/gr_252841_2025.html — Planters Development Bank v. Heirs of Nilo P. Delos Santos, G.R. No. 252841, January 15, 2025, main decision on the general legal-question rule and conflicting RTC and CA findings as an exception.
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