Original and Appellate

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1. Which best describes original jurisdiction?
2. Which best describes appellate jurisdiction?
3. Can the same court possess both original and appellate jurisdiction in different classes of cases?
4. An RTC hears a properly perfected ordinary appeal from a Municipal Trial Court within its territorial jurisdiction. In …
5. A proper petition for mandamus is initiated in the Supreme Court under Article VIII, Section 5(1). How is the Court's j…
6. An RTC first resolves a case filed within its statutory original jurisdiction. In a separate proceeding it reviews a pr…
7. A litigant files an original petition for certiorari alleging grave abuse of discretion by a lower tribunal. He insists…
8. Distinguish original from appellate jurisdiction and explain how an RTC can exercise both. Avoid using the institutiona…
9. Why does an original certiorari petition not become an ordinary appeal merely because it challenges a lower tribunal's …
10. An RTC decides an ordinary appeal from an MTC on the record and memoranda. A litigant claims this must be original juri…
11. For selecting an appeal route under Maslag, what jurisdictional feature of the RTC decision is determinative?
12. A Court of Appeals petition for review examines a final SEC quasi-judicial decision under the authorized Rule43 route. …