Practice question
A dispositive portion contains an obvious clerical interchange of mortgagor and mortgagee, while the actual adjudication is clear. Is correction necessarily a new collateral merits appeal?
- No; genuine clerical correction is distinct from a substantive attack
- Yes; every correction overturns the merits
- Yes; clerical mistakes automatically destroy jurisdiction
- Yes; only a new trial can ever address a typo
- Yes; every typo proves the judgment utterly void
Legal references
- Atup v People GR229395/252705 November10,2021 MAIN nullity and clerical correction: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2021/nov2021/gr_229395_2021.html
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