Practice question
A court considers coercive imprisonment for failure to perform an act. The act is established to be no longer within the respondent’s power, and no separate punitive issue is being decided. Which Section8 condition is missing?
- The act must still be within the respondent’s power to perform
- Any impossible act can be compelled indefinitely
- Only the complainant’s anger matters
- Every debt permits coercive imprisonment
- No performance-capacity inquiry exists
Legal references
- Rules of Court specified Rules69–71: https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/rc_1-71_civil.html Rule71 Sections1,3(b),(e),(g),6 and8.
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