Text of the provision
Sec. 2. Petition for relief from denial of appeal. — When a judgment or final order is rendered by any court in a case, and a party thereto, by fraud, accident, mistake, or excusable negligence, has been prevented from taking an appeal, he may file a petition in such court and in the same case praying that the appeal be given due course.
2019 Rules of Civil Procedure (A.M. No. 19-10-20-SC), Rule 38, Section 2. Reproduced verbatim and verified word-for-word against the Supreme Court's official text and the ChanRobles rendering.
About this section
This is Section 2 of Rule 38 (Relief From Judgments, Orders, Or Other Proceedings) of the 2019 Rules of Civil Procedure, the rules promulgated by the Supreme Court in A.M. No. 19-10-20-SC and in force since May 1, 2020. The text above is reproduced verbatim from the current rules.
Related provisions
- Section 1 — Petition for relief from judgment, order, or other proceedings.
- Section 3 — Time for filing petition; contents and verification.
Cases citing this section
- Authorities on this section will be added here as each is verified against primary sources.