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Socrates vs COMELEC, 391 SCRA 457; G.R. No. 154512, November 12, 2002 (Local Government, Recall Election

Lorenzo shipping corporation v. chubb and sons, inc., 431 SCRA 266, 2004 FACTS

Premium defined 1. Oriental assurance corp. v. CA, 200 SCRA 459 (1991) Payment of premium ordinarily not a debt or obligation 1. Phil. Phoenix Surety & Insurance Co., Inc. v. Woodworks, Inc., 20 SCRA 1270 (1967) 2. Tibay v. CA, 257 SCRA 126 (1996) 3. UCPB General Insurance Co., Inc v. Masagana Telemart., Inc., 356 SCRA 307 (2001) 4. Home Assurance Company, Inc. v. Tantoco Enterprises, Inc., 366 SCRA 740 (2001) Excuses for nonpayment of Premiums 1. Wheeler v. Connecticut Mutual Life Ins. Co., 82 N.Y. 543 2. National Leather Co., Inc v. US Life Ins. Co., 87 PHIL 410 (1950) 3. Constantino v. Asia Life Ins., Co., 87 Phil 248 (1950) 4. Gonales v. Asia Life Ins. Co., 92 Phil. 197 (1952) Validity of policy where credit extension granted to insured 1. Velasco v. Apostol, 173 SCRA 228 (1989) 2. Gabriel v. Mateo, 71 Phil. 497 (1941) When Policy valid and binding notwithstanding nonpayment of premium 1. Makati Tuscany Condominium Corp. v. CA, 215 SCRA 463 (1992) 2. South Sea Surety and Insurance

USC v CA GR L-79237 10/18/88 Facts Private respondent enrolled in the College of Architecture, University of San Carlos (USC), during the first semester of school year 1978-79. At the end of the second semester of that school year, she obtained a grade of "I.C." (Incomplete) in Architecture 121, and grades of "5's" (failures) in Architecture 122 and Architecture 123. The following school year, 1979-1980, she shifted to the College of Commerce of the USC. Some of the units she had completed when she was still an architecture student were then carried over and credited in her new course. As a commerce student, she obtained good grades. So, on December 10, 1981, she wrote 5 the Council of Deans of the USC, requesting that her grades of 5s in Architecture 121 and Architecture 122 be disregarded in the computation of her grade average. Issue WON the school be compelled by mandamus to allow the respondent to graduate with honors Held No. even if she succeeded in removing her failing grades

HASEGAWA V. KITAMURA, 538 SCRA 26, (2007) FACTS Kitamura, initiated an action for specific performance and damages against Hasegawa and Nippon with the RTC of Lipa City. Nippon and Hasegawa moved to dismiss the complaint for lack of jurisdiction, contending that the contract being enforced by Kitamura had been perfected in Japan, between and among Japanese nationals. They assert that the action shall be heard in the proper courts in Japan following the principle of lex loci celebrationis and lex contractus. Thus, petitioners posit that local courts have no substantial relationship to the parties following the “state of the most significant relationship rule” in Private International Law. RTC denied the MTD, and subsequently denied petitioners’ motion for reconsideration. On a petition for certiorari to CA, it dismissed the petition. CA ruled that the principle of lex loci celebrationis was not applicable to the case, because nowhere in the pleadings was the validity of the written agr

OIL AND NATURAL GAS COMMISSION v Court of Appeals, 293 SCRA 96 ( 1998) FACTS

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