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Jose Clavano, Inc. vs Housing And Land Use Regulatory Board And Sps. Enrique And Venus Tenazas

JOSE CLAVANO, INC., petitioner, vs. HOUSING AND LAND USE REGULATORY BOARD and SPS. ENRIQUE and VENUS TENAZAS, respondents.

G.R. No. 143781 | 2002-02-27

D E C I S I O N

BELLOSILLO, J.:

"The tendency of the law," observes Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, "must always be to narrow the field of uncertainty." And so was the judicial process conceived to bring about the just termination of legal disputes. The mechanisms for this objective are manifold but the essential precept underlying them is the immutability of final and executory judgments.

This fundamental principle in part affirms our recognition of instances when disputes are inadequately presented before the courts and addresses situations when parties fail to unravel what they truly desire and thus fail to set forth all the claims...