Text of the provision

Sec. 8. Questions that may be decided. — No error which does not affect the jurisdiction over the subject matter or the validity of the judgment appealed from or the proceedings therein will be considered unless stated in the assignment of errors, or closely related to or dependent on an assigned error and properly argued in the brief, save as the court may pass upon plain errors and clerical errors.

2019 Rules of Civil Procedure (A.M. No. 19-10-20-SC), Rule 51, Section 8. Reproduced verbatim and verified word-for-word against the Supreme Court's official text and the ChanRobles rendering.

About this section

This is Section 8 of Rule 51 (Judgment) 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

Cases citing this section

Note. The text above is reproduced in full from the 2019 Rules of Civil Procedure (A.M. No. 19-10-20-SC), verified against the Supreme Court's official publication and the ChanRobles rendering. The framing around it is general legal information, not legal advice. How a rule applies to a particular case depends on facts that only a lawyer reviewing your matter can assess.