Practice question
A defendant voluntarily submits to the court's personal jurisdiction but later argues that this consent also creates subject-matter jurisdiction where the governing statute gives the case exclusively to another tribunal. Is that correct?
- Yes, voluntary appearance supplies every kind of jurisdiction.
- Yes, if both lawyers agree.
- Yes, if summons was unnecessary.
- Yes, whenever the complaint is verified.
- No; the Rule14 equivalence concerns service and personal jurisdiction, not a new statutory subject-matter grant.
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/am_19-10-20-sc_2019.html — AM19-10-20-SC, current 2019 amendments, Rules8§12,14§§20–23 and15.
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