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Legal Forms & Jurisdiction Guide

This document is a manual for legal forms submitted by Ateneo Law students. It covers basic and essential legal forms used in corporate and litigation practice. The manual discusses jurisdiction, which is the authority of courts to hear certain cases. It notes the importance of determining jurisdiction when handling a case in order to know where proceedings should be initiated. The manual describes different types of jurisdiction, including general vs limited, original vs appellate, exclusive vs concurrent, and territorial vs extra-territorial jurisdiction. Important principles to remember regarding jurisdiction are also mentioned.

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Legal Forms & Jurisdiction Guide

This document is a manual for legal forms submitted by Ateneo Law students. It covers basic and essential legal forms used in corporate and litigation practice. The manual discusses jurisdiction, which is the authority of courts to hear certain cases. It notes the importance of determining jurisdiction when handling a case in order to know where proceedings should be initiated. The manual describes different types of jurisdiction, including general vs limited, original vs appellate, exclusive vs concurrent, and territorial vs extra-territorial jurisdiction. Important principles to remember regarding jurisdiction are also mentioned.

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2nd Semester

08/09

Legal Forms Manual

Submitted by Ateneo Law 3D SY ’08‐‘09


An indispensible tool guide for the law student and the practicing lawyer, this manual
covers the different basic legal forms as well as the quintessential legal forms used in
both corporate and litigation practice.

Aguinaldo and Temprosa (ed.), Aquino, I., Aquino, T., Austria, Ba ndong, Bautista,
Bisnar, Chotrani, Concepcion, Cruz, Dino, Enriquez, Fernandez, Flores, Gan, Go,
Gonzales, Hosaka, Labaguis, Laurente, Lee, Lim, Macasaet, Martinez, Nepomuceno,
Oberio, Pano, Penaflorida, Reyes, Sabio, Salvahan, Sandic o, Singson, Tan, E., Tan,
L.,Teehankee,Verzosa,Zuniga
[LEGAL FORMS MANUAL]
ATENEO LAW 3D ’08‐‘09 2

CHAPTER 1: JURISDICTION

What is JURISDICTION?
 Authority given by law to a court or tribunal to hear and determine certain controversies
involving rights which are legally demandable and enforceable
 It is the legal authority to hear and determine a cause or the right to act in a case.

What is its SIGNIFICANCE to LEGAL FORMS?


 It is important to know which court has jurisdiction over the particular case a lawyer is handling
in order to determine where proceedings should be initiated.

KINDS OF JURISDICTION

According to Types of Cases Tried


 General jurisdiction ‐ extends to all controversies which may be brought before a court within
the legal bounds of rights and remedies
 Limited or Special jurisdiction ‐ confined to particular cases, and can be exercised only under the
circumstances prescribed by the statute

According to Power of Review


 Original ‐ exercised in the court at first instance
 Appellate ‐ power and authority conferred upon a superior court to re‐hear and determine
causes which have been tried in inferior courts

According to Extent of Exercise


 Exclusive ‐ confined to a particular tribunal or grade of courts and possessed by it to the
exclusion of others
 Concurrent ‐ exercise by different courts at the same time over the same subject matter and
within the same territory, and wherein litigants may, in the first instance, resort to one of them
indifferently (but taking into consideration the doctrine of judicial hierarchy)

According to Situs
 Territorial Jurisdiction‐ exercised within the limits of the place where the court is located
 Extra‐territorial Jurisdiction ‐ exercised beyond the confines of the place where the court is
located

IMPORTANT PRINCIPLES TO REMEMBER

Doctrine of Ancillary Jurisdiction


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