X: TRIAL

1. What is trial?
2. What is the purpose of trial?
3. When is trial not necessary?
4. What is the order of trial?
5. What is rebuttal evidence?
6. What is surrebuttal evidence?
7. When is the order of trial not followed?
8. What is the difference between adjournment of trial and postponement of
trial?
9. Give five acceptable grounds for postponement?
10.When may a motion for postponement be granted on the ground of
absence of evidence?
11.What is a full-blown trial?
12.Who may receive evidence during the trial?
13.When may the reception of evidence be delegated to the Clerk of Court?
14.What will the Clerk of Court do in case of objections during his/her
reception of evidence?
15. Who is a Commissioner?
16.Give five examples of commissioners for trial?
17.When may reception of evidence be referred to a commissioner?
18. What are the powers of a commissioner?
19.When may judgment be rendered even without a full-blown trial?
20. What are the differences between a demurrer to evidence in civil
actions and in criminal actions?
21.Give the differences between a judgment on the pleadings and a
summary judgment.
22. What is a genuine issue in connection with summary judgments?
23.Outline the procedure for the issuance of a summary judgment.
24.What is the difference between the suspension of actions and archival of
cases?
25.When may trial be suspended in civil actions? (not only under the Civil
Code)
26.When may civil cases be archived? (get the circular)
27. What is a subpoena?
28.What are the two kinds of subpoena and what are their purposes?
29.What is the test of definiteness of a subpoena duces tecum?
30.What are the grounds for the quashal of a subpoena duces tecum?
31.What are the grounds for the quashal of a subpoena ad testificandum?
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