Practice question
A party offers a judicial record and argues that its public character prevents any attack even if the issuing court lacked jurisdiction. Which is correct under Section 29?
- Every judicial record is immune from jurisdictional challenge
- Only the record's binding can be examined
- A jurisdictional defect is legally irrelevant
- The record may be impeached by proof of want of jurisdiction, as well as the other grounds listed in Section 29
- The private proponent may decide jurisdiction conclusively
Legal references
- A.M. No. 19-08-15-SC, Rule 132, Sections 23–26 and 29–30.
- Reviewed primary authority, Rule 132, Sections 23–26 and 29–30, amended foreign-record proof: https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/am_19-08-15-sc_2019.html
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