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Practice question: Original and Appellate

Multiple Choice Easy

Practice question

Which best describes appellate jurisdiction?
  1. Authority exercised only before any court has acted.
  2. Authority limited to issuing summons.
  3. Authority to review a lower court's judgment or order through the prescribed appellate process.
  4. Authority automatically possessed by every public official.
  5. Authority that never involves a court record.

Legal references

  • https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html — Article VIII, Section 5(2).
  • https://lawphil.net/statutes/bataspam/bp1981/bp_129_1981.html — Section 22.

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