Practice question
A party files no new-trial or reconsideration motion and simply waits beyond the ordinary appeal period. It invokes Neypes as an automatic extra fifteen days. Which is best?
- Every judgment automatically gets two consecutive periods
- Silence counts as a reconsideration motion
- The opponent’s consent is irrelevant to every deadline
- The period never expires
- The fresh-period doctrine does not supply an automatic extra period without its proper triggering motion
Legal references
- Neypes, G.R.141524: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2005/sep2005/gr_141524_2005.html
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