C.

The Law Pertaining to Private Personal and

Commercial Relations – 18 questions

a) Civil Law – 12 questions

a. Legal Personality, capacity to act
b. Marital Relationships
c. Property (concept of property,
ownership, co-ownership, right of
accession, easement, nuisance)
d. Obligations
e. Contracts (in general, loans and
mortgages (NOTE PPSA), interest)
f. Torts, Quasi-Delicts
g. Damages
b) Commercial Law – 6 questions
a. Corporations (Kinds of Corporations,
including corporations sole;
composition of/membership in Board of
Directors; power, duties, and
prerogatives of boards of directors and
stockholders; and articles of
incorporation and by-laws)
b. Intra-corporate dispute (concept)
c. Intellectual Property (Copyright,
including fair use principle and moral
rights)
d. Insurance (What can be insured, claims
for life insurance)
e. R.A. 10173 (Data Privacy Act of 2012)

D. Procedure and Professional Ethics – 18 questions

a) Remedial Law – 12 questions

a. Civil Procedure
b. Criminal Procedure
c. Appeal (Rules 41, 45)
d. Original Cases (Rule 46)
e. Small Claims
f. Evidence
g. Special Civil Actions (expropriation,
certiorari, prohibition, mandamus, quo
warranto)
h. Special Proceedings (habeas corpus,
habeas data, writ of amparo, Rules of
Procedure for Environmental Cases)
b) Ethics – 4 questions
a. Qualifications for new lawyers (includes
those who reacquire citizenship)
b. Code of Professional Responsibility
(including duties incorporated in the
Lawyer’s Oath)
c. Disqualifications/inhibitions for judges
d. Direct and indirect contempt
c) Practical Exercises – 2 questions
a. Parts of conveyancing, affidavits
b. Parts of pleadings, motions