Practice question
In an ordinary contract-collection case, a party offers the opponent's unrelated bad moral reputation solely to show likely nonpayment. Character is not an issue and no other admissible purpose is established. What is correct?
- The reputation automatically proves breach
- Civil cases always require moral-character evidence
- The offered character evidence is not admissible on that basis
- The opponent must admit liability to exclude it
- Bad reputation dispenses with the contract
Legal references
- A.M. No. 19-08-15-SC, Rule 130, Section 54.
- Reviewed primary authority, Rule 130, Section 54, amended text: https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/am_19-08-15-sc_2019.html
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