A MOTION TO DISMISS is a party's request to a court to dismiss a case because

of settlement, voluntary withdrawal, procedural defect or claim is one for which the
law provides a remedy.
A MOTION TO CONSOLIDATE IS A MOTION to join two or more cases together
into one action, where the issues are basically the same.
The adjournment or POSTPONEMENT of an action pending in a court to a later
date of the same or another session of the court, granted by a court in response to
a motion made by a party to a lawsuit. The entry into the trial record of the
adjournment of a case for the purpose of formally evidencing it.
MOTION FOR EXTENSION OF TIME Law & Legal Definition. Motion for
Extension of time is an application requesting the court to
extend the time allowed for the completion of some act , when that act may or
must be done within a specified time.
INHIBITION
Considering the tendency of Filipino trial lawyers to file motions for inhibition of
judges who have denied their incidental prayers or against whom they have filed
certiorari petitions, perhaps it is wise to reiterate the holding of the Philippine
Supreme Court in the case of PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioner, vs. COURT OF
APPEALS and ARTURO F. PACIFICADOR, respondents, G.R. No. 129120, July 2, 1999,
which stated, inter alia, that mere suspicion that a judge is partial is not enough;
that there should be clear and convincing evidence to prove the charge of bias and
partiality; that bare allegations of partiality and prejudgment will not suffice; and
that bias and prejudice cannot be presumed especially if weighed against a judges
sacred obligation under his oath of office to administer justice . Thus:
In a string of cases decided by this Court we said that while bias and prejudice,
which are relied upon by petitioner, have been recognized as valid reasons for the
voluntary inhibition of the judge under Rule 137, sec.1, par. 2, the rudimentary rule
is that mere suspicion that a judge is partial is not enough. There should be clear
and convincing evidence to prove the charge of bias and partiality. Bare allegations
of partiality and prejudgment will not suffice. Bias and prejudice cannot be
presumed especially if weighed against a judges sacred obligation under his oath of
office to administer justice without respect to person and do equal right to the poor
and the rich.
In our more recent decisions, we reiterated parameters that mere suspicion that a
judge was partial to a party is not enough; that there should be adequate evidence
to prove the charge; that there must be showing that the judge had an interest,
personal or otherwise, in the prosecution of the case at bar; and that to be
disqualifying, the bias and prejudice must be shown to have stemmed from an

extrajudicial source and result in an opinion on the merits on some basis other than
what the judge learned from his participation in the case.

ORDER OF DEFAULT IN LAND REGISTRATION, WHEN ENTERED

1. Order of general defaultif no person appears and answers within the time
allowed; by description in the notice to whom it may concern, all the world are
made parties defendant and shall be concluded by the default order
2. Order of special defaultwhen an appearance has been entered and answer
filed, default order shall be entered upon against persons who didn't appear and
answer
MOTION TO LIFT ORDER OF GENERAL DEFAULT
> Remedy available to a person to whom an order of default has been issued
against
> An order of default is interlocutory in character, subject to the control of the
court, and may be modified and amended as the court may deem proper at any
time prior to the rendition of the final judgment
> A motion filed prior to rendition of judgment should be decided with liberality
since it is presented promptly and without unnecessary delay
EFFECT OF ORDER OF DEFAULT
> Party declared in default loses his standing in court
> He cannot appear in court, be heard or be entitled to notice

A party may file a MOTION FOR JUDGMENT ON THE PLEADINGS on the basis that no
answer has been filed, or that the pleadings disclose that there are no material issues of fact to
be resolved and that party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.
EJECTMENT is the common law term for civil action to recover the possession of or title to
land. It replaced the old real actions as well as the various possessory assizes.
INTERPLEADER is civil procedure that allows a plaintiff to initiate a lawsuit in order to compel
two or more other parties to litigate a dispute. An interpleader action originates when the
plaintiff holds property on behalf of another, but does not know to whom the property should be
transferred.