Practice question
The detaining person's exact name is unknown, but the petitioner can describe the custodian. What does Section 3(b) allow?
- An assumed appellation or description identifying the officer or person where the name is unknown or uncertain
- Automatic abandonment of the remedy
- Inventing a known person's identity without basis
- Naming only an unrelated stranger
- Omitting every available identifying detail
Legal references
- Rules of Court, Rule 102 Sections 1 and 3–6; ordinary adult unlawful-restraint petition, not the separate child-custody procedure: https://lawphil.net/courts/supreme/rc/rc_72-109_proceedings.html
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