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Barangay Courts:
- Confrontation between parties required (Sec 6 PD 1508)
- No jurisdiction is parties come from different
municipalities AND barangays are not adjacent to each
other
Kinds of Customs:
1. General customs – prevalent throughout a country;
existence to be determined in court
- Trade and Business: followed in all cases by all
persons in the same business in the same territory;
long established; all presumed know of it
2. Local Customs – prevalent only in some particular
district or locality, or in some city, country or town
3. Particular Customs – affect only the inhabitants of
some particular district