WHAT ARE THE INSTANCES WHERE A CONSIGNATION PRODUCES THE EFFECT OF PAYMENT EVEN WITHOUT PRIOR TENDER OF PAYMENT?
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The creditor is absent or unknown, or does not appear at the place of payment.
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The creditor is incapacitated to receive the payment at the time it is due;
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The creditor refuses to give a receipt without just cause;
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Two or more persons claim the right to collect; and
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The title to the obligation has been lost.
WHICH COURTS OR TRIBUNALS HAVE JURISDICTION TO HEAR EMPLOYMENT-RELATED COMPLAINTS?
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The existence of an employer-employee relationship between the parties is a jurisdictional requisite for the exercise of jurisdiction over a labor dispute by the Labor Arbiter or any other labor tribunals.
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If there is a reasonable causal connection between the claim asserted and the employer-employee relationship, then the case is within the jurisdiction of labor courts.
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In the absence of such nexus, it is the regular courts that have jurisdiction.
Not every controversy or money claim by an employee against the employer or vice-versa is within the exclusive jurisdiction of the labor arbiter.
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Actions between employees and employer where the employer-employee relationship is merely incidental and the cause of action precedes from a different source of obligation is within the exclusive jurisdiction of the regular court.
WHAT IS A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION?
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Any person, partnership, association or corporation, singly or jointly with others but not more than fifteen (15) in number, may organize a corporation for any lawful purpose or purposes.
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Natural persons who are licensed to practice a profession shall not be allowed to organize a stock corporation unless otherwise provided under special laws.
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Nonstock corporations may be formed or organized for charitable, religious, educational, professional, cultural, fraternal, literary, scientific, social, civic service, or similar purposes.
WHAT ARE PATENTS?
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A Patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to an inventor or his assignee for a fixed period of time in exchange for a disclosure of an invention.
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The patent law has a three-fold purpose: “first, patent law seeks to foster and reward invention; second, it promotes disclosures of invention; and third, to ensure that ideas in the public domain remain there for the free use of the public.”
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In rewarding a useful invention, the rights and welfare of the community must be fairly dealt with and effectively guarded.