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2015-04-22 |
PERALTA, J. |
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| The time-honored principle is that litigation has to end and terminate sometime and somewhere, and it is essential to an effective administration of justice that once a judgment has become final, the issue or cause therein should be laid to rest.[22] Public policy and sound practice demand that at the risk of occasional errors, judgments of courts should become final at some definite date fixed by law.[23] The Latin maxim is: Interest reipublicae ut sit finis litium[24] It is held, further, | |||||