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31Id., at p. 200.
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36G.R. No. 107243, September 1, 1993, 226 SCRA 36 [Per CJ.
Narvasa, Second Division].
37Rollo, pp. 207209.
38Id., at pp. 210211.
39Id., at pp. 213214.
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98Rollo, p. 112.
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105Id., at p. 283.
106Id., at p. 218.
107Id., at p. 272.
108RULES OF COURT, Rule 8, Sec. 2 states:
Sec. 2. Alternative causes of action or defenses.
A party may set forth two or more statements of a claim or
defense alternatively or hypothetically, either in one cause of
action or defense or in separate causes of action or defenses.
When two or more statements are made in the alternative and
one of them if made independently would be suf
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124Rollo, p. 141.
125 Heirs of Atienza v. Espidol, supra note 123 at p.
265Nabus v. Pacson,supranote 110 at p. 357.
126395 Phil. 115 340 SCRA 720 (2000) [PerJ.Buena, Second
Division].
127Id., at p. 130 p. 732.
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139Id., at p. 103.
140 350 Phil. 535 287 SCRA 94 (1998) [Per J. Mendoza,
Second Division].
141Id., at pp. 542543 pp. 100101.
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pay also the two pesos legal research fund fee, if she has not paid
it, as required in Section 4 of Republic Act No. 3870, the charter of
the U.P. Law Center.)
Thus, although eventually the result may be the recovery of
land, it is the nature of the action as one for rescission of contract
which is controlling. The Court of Appeals correctly applied these
cases to the present one. As it said:
We would like to add the observations that since the action of
petitioners [private respondents] against private respondents
[petitioners] is solely for annulment or rescission which is not
susceptible of pecuniary estimation, the action should not be
confused and equated with the value of the property subject of
the transaction that by the very nature of the case, the
allegations, and specific prayer in the complaint, sans any prayer
for recovery of money and/or value of the transaction, or for actual
or compensatory damages, the assessment and collection of the
legal fees should not be intertwined with the merits of the case
and/or what may be its end result and that to sustain private
respondents [petitioners] position on what the respondent court
may decide after all, then the assessment should be deferred and
finally assessed only after the court had finally decided the case,
which cannot be done because the rules require that filing fees
should be based on what is alleged and prayed for in the face of
the complaint and paid upon the filing of the complaint.142
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neys fees with interest at 6% per annum from the time this
decision becomes final and executory until petitioner
corporation fully pays the amount of damages.144
SO ORDERED.
Velasco, Jr. (Chairperson),
Jr.**and Mendoza, JJ., concur.
Peralta,
Villarama,
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144Nacar v. Gallery Frames, G.R. No. 189871, August 13, 2013, 703
SCRA 439, 458 [Per J. Peralta, En Banc].
**Designated as acting member per Special Order No. 1691 dated May
22, 2014 in view of the vacancy in the Third Division.
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