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2006-03-15 |
PUNO, J. |
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| Under the Constitution, this Court has original jurisdiction over petitions for certiorari, prohibition and mandamus.[20] We have consistently ruled that where the duty of the respondent Commission is ministerial, mandamus lies to compel its performance. [21] A purely ministerial act, as distinguished from a discretionary act, is one which an officer or tribunal performs in a given state of facts, in a prescribed manner, in obedience to the mandate of legal authority, without regard to or the exercise of his own judgment upon the propriety or impropriety of the act done.[22] | |||||