Practice question
What is the ordinary rule for removing a public record whose official copy is admissible?
- It remains in its office unless the court orders removal where inspection is essential to a pending case’s just determination.
- Any litigant may take it home without permission.
- It must always be destroyed after copying.
- The proponent may permanently keep it.
- No court can ever order inspection.
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/am_19-08-15-sc_2019.html — Rule 132 sections 24–28 and 33: official records, attestation, foreign certificates, nonremoval, absence of record and translation.
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