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Practice question: Foreign Private Juridical Entity

Multiple Choice Easy

Practice question

Under section 14’s specified overseas-service route for an unregistered entity or one without a resident agent but with the required Philippine business connection, what judicial permission is required?
  1. None, because any private message is summons
  2. Only permission from the plaintiff’s witness
  3. Leave of court
  4. Approval from a newspaper without court action
  5. A private agreement signed after default

Legal references

  • https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/am_19-10-20-sc_2019.html — current Rule 14 sections 9, 14, 19 and 21, foreign private entities, leave, convention-consistent service and proof.
  • https://oca.judiciary.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/OCA-Circular-No.-254-2024.pdf — official OCA Circular 254-2024 reproducing AO 101-2024; section 2.1(a), outbound application for Philippine judicial documents by motion with leave in the court of the proceeding.
  • https://assets.hcch.net/docs/97b5fe26-8361-467b-8e1e-b778f6d6bdd0.pdf — Supreme Court AO 101-2024, June 25, 2024, Philippine Hague Service Convention guidelines; apply where the Convention governs.

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