PROVREM Recordings Transcript
PROVREM Recordings Transcript
REPLEVIN
- Recovery of possession of real property
- Nature of the replevin suit: possessory action
- What is the purpose of the possessory action?
1. To protect the plaintiff’s interest in the property
2. To prevent the defendant from damaging, or destroying or disposing the
property during the pendency of the action
- What is the main action? Recovery of possession over personal property
- Jurisdiction over the replevin suit. RTC or MTC depending on the
jurisdictional amount.
- As long as the main action is cognizable with the MTC for example, the first
court can issue an writ of replevin
- SMART Communication vs Astorga => about the nature of replevin, there was
a labor case and a case involving a vessel with the RTC. Supreme Court:
Despite the fact of the pendency of the labor case involving the plaintiff and
the respondents involving the right to strike and right to picket, the replevin
is cognizable with the RTC and not the labor court. It is beyond the
competence of the labor tribunal to rule on the validity or invalidity of the
writ of replevin. The issue of the possessory action is with the appropriate
trial courts and not with the labor tribunals.
- CHARACTERISTICS OF A WRIT OF REPLEVIN: WHICH IS IN THE
NATURE OF POSSESSORY ACTION
- Section 1, Rule 60 TIMELINE
- MIDTERMS: State the timeline in so far as this provisional remedies are
concerned.
- Timeline: At the commencement of the action or before answer (before
service)
- After answer: apply for preliminary attachment
- Section 2: Affidavit and bond
- Application must follow the conditions set under Section 2
- Conditions (O-W-A-A)
1. The applicant is the owner of the property claimed or entitled to an
equitable title
2. That the property is Wrongfully detained by the adverse party
3. That the property is not held under tax assessment (Pagkalinawan vs.
Gomez => If the property is under custodial egis, you cannot ask for a
writ of replevin)
4. The actual value of the property
- Bond: double the value of the property why? Because you remove the
property from the defendant and later on it is found that the defendant is the
rightful owner of the property.
- Writ of replevin is irregular and unconstitutional because the Constitution
provides that no person shall be deprived of property without due process of
law.
- Question: Is prior demand an essential requisite before any action for
replevin against the defendant. NO because there is nothing in the rule where
it provides that prior demand is a prior demand. What about in oblicon?? Not
applicable in replevin.
- A party could be a plaintiff or defendant in his counterclaim
- Kabatingan vs BPI Feb 17, 2016 => reiterated Navarro vs Hon. Escobido
(2009)
- Section 3 Affidavit and Bond
- Before the writ, the court will issue an order in granting the writ