Practice question
A validly served defendant’s answer period has begun. Process intended for a different, still unserved defendant is later lost and replaced. The first defendant says that unrelated alias issuance automatically restarts its own answer period. Which is sound?
- Every defendant is automatically unserved again
- Every alias restarts every party’s period
- A case may never have multiple defendants
- Loss of an unserved copy erases all completed acts
- Replacement for the other defendant does not by itself undo the first defendant’s completed service
Legal references
- Current Rule14, AM19-10-20-SC: https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/am_19-10-20-sc_2019.html
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