Key Doctrines: A buyer must investigate both intrinsic (register/title) and extrinsic (circumstantial) evidence to claim good faith. Mere reliance on a “clean” title is insufficient when defects are apparent or…
DOCTRINE It is settled that an accused cannot be convicted of a crime, even if duly proven, unless it is alleged or necessarily included in the information filed against him…
DOCTRINE The accused cannot be convicted of an offense lesser than that charged if the lesser offense had already prescribed at the time the information was filed. To hold otherwise…
DOCTRINE The appeal taken by petitioner shall be applied to Obay, Esperas, Valencia, and Pastorizo since it is favorable and applicable to them. FACTS Petitioner Jovit Buella, along with co-accused…
DOCTRINE Time and again, the Court has stressed that the right to appeal is not a natural but a statutory privilege and must be pursued in accordance with the law.…
DOCTRINE [T]here is no law or rule stating definitively that an offer to stipulate a fact that happens to be untrue would make the offeror liable for perjury. FACTS Atty.…
DOCTRINE A divorce decree issued by a foreign court dissolves the marriage. The purpose and effect of a decree of divorce from the bond of matrimony by a court of…
DOCTRINE Article 344 of the Revised Penal Code thus presupposes that the marital relationship is still subsisting at the time of the institution of the criminal action for adultery. FACTS…