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2011-12-14 |
BERSAMIN, J. |
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| In effect, Land Bank v. Suntay (G.R. No. 157903) set aside the decision of RARAD Miñas dated January 24, 2000 fixing the just compensation. The finality of the judgment in Land Bank v. Suntay (G.R. No. 157903) meant that the decrees thereof could no longer be altered, modified, or reversed even by the Court en banc. Nothing is more settled in law than that a judgment, once it attains finality, becomes immutable and unalterable, and can no longer be modified in any respect, even if the modification is meant to correct what is perceived to be an erroneous conclusion of fact or law, and regardless of whether the modification is attempted to be made by the court rendering it or by the highest court of the land.[78] This rule rests on the principle that all litigation must come to an end, however unjust the result of error may appear; otherwise, litigation will become even more intolerable than the wrong or injustice it is designed to correct.[79] | |||||
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2008-10-06 |
BRION, J. |
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| Fourth, the lower court has no jurisdiction to interpret, much less reverse, this Court's final and executory judgment. We enunciated this principle as early as 1922 in Shioji v. Harvey .[8] "The inferior court is bound by the decree as the law of the case, and must carry it into execution according to its mandate. They cannot vary it, or examine it for any other purpose than execution, or give any other or further relief, or review it upon any matter decided on appeal for error apparent, or intermeddle with it, further than to settle so much as has been remanded."[9] An order of execution which varies the tenor of the judgment or exceeds the terms thereof is a nullity.[10] | |||||
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2007-08-09 |
VELASCO, JR., J. |
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| It is a settled doctrine that a decision, after it becomes final, becomes immutable and unalterable.[14] Thus, the court loses jurisdiction to amend, modify, or alter a final judgment and is left only with the jurisdiction to execute and enforce it. Any amendment or alteration which substantially affects a final and executory judgment is null and void for lack of jurisdiction, including the entire proceedings held for that purpose.[15] | |||||