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Practice question: Entity without Juridical Personality

Multiple Choice Hard

Practice question

A former associate proves that her connection with the nonjuridical group was severed with due notice before the complaint was filed. Summons later reaches a current associate. The claimant says Section7 automatically binds every person who ever worked with the group. Which is best?
  1. Any historical association necessarily remains enough
  2. The due-notice timing is irrelevant
  3. The former associate falls within Section7’s express exclusion from individual binding effect
  4. The claimant may erase the severance date by assertion
  5. Every current associate also becomes exempt automatically

Legal references

  • Rule14 Section7, second paragraph: https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/am_19-10-20-sc_2019.html

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