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PETITION FOR AUTHORITY TO CONTINUE USE OF
THE FIRM NAME SYCIP, SALAZAR, FELICIANO,
HERNANDEZ & CASTILLO. LUCIANO E. SALAZAR,
FLORENTINO
P.
FELICIANO,
BENILDO
G.
HERNANDEZ. GREGORIO R. CASTILLO. ALBERTO P.
SAN JUAN, JUAN C. REYES, JR., ANDRES G.
GATMAITAN, JUSTINO H. CACANINDIN, NOEL A.
LAMAN, ETHELWOLDO E. FERNANDEZ, ANGELITO C.
IMPERIO, EDUARDO R. CENIZA, TRISTAN A.
CATINDIG, ANCHETA K. TAN, and ALICE V. PESIGAN,
petitioners.
IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION FOR AUTHORITY
TO CONTINUE USE OF THE FIRM NAME OZAETA,
ROMULO, DE LEON, MABANTA & REYES. RICARDO
J. ROMULO, BENJAMIN M. DE LEON, ROMAN
MABANTA, JR., JOSE MA. REYES, JESUS S. J. SAYOC,
EDUARDO DE LOS ANGELES, and JOSE F.
BUENAVENTURA, petitioners.
Civil Law Partnership Firm Name Use in the partnership
name of the names of deceased partners contrary to Art. 1815 of
the Civil Code Names in a firm name of a partnership must be
living partners Reasons.Inasmuch as Sycip, Salazar, Feliciano,
Hernandez and Castillo and Ozaeta, Romulo, De Leon, Mabanta
and Reyes are partnerships, the use in their partnership names
of the names of deceased partners will run counter to Article 1815
of the Civil Code. x x x It is clearly tacit in the above provision
that names in a firm name of a partnership must either be those
of living partners and, in the case of nonpartners, should be
living persons who can be subjected to liability. In fact, Article
1825 of the Civil Code prohibits a third person from including his
name in the firm name under pain of assuming the liability of a
partner. The heirs of a deceased partner in
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RESOLUTION
MELENCIOHERRERA, J.:
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et al., p. 3.
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Act No. 342 Sec. 39, Commonwealth Act No. 294 Sec. 23, Republic Act
No. 318 Sec. 39, Republic Act No. 184.
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pp. 34.
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Romulo, et al., p. 5.
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Seddal vs. Keating, 8 App. Div. 2d 44, 185 NYS 2d 630, affd 7 NY 2d
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H.S. Drinker, Legal Ethics (1953), p. 206 see also Canon 33, par. 2,
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reliability.
3. A relation to clients in the highest degree fiduciary.
4. A relation to colleagues at the bar characterized by
candor, fairness, and unwillingness to resort to current
business methods of advertising and encroachment
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their practice, or dealing directly with their clients.
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7 C.J.S. 708.
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5 Am Jur 270.
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in 1908 were also adopted by the Philippine Bar Association in 1917. The
American Bar Association adopted Canons 33 to 45 in 1928, Canon 46 in
1933 and Canon 47 in 1937. On April 20, 1946,
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JBL Reyes & RC Puno, Outline of Philippine Civil Law, Fourth Ed.,
Vol. 1, p. 7.
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CERTIFICATION
FERNANDO C.J.:
The petitions are denied, as there are only four votes for
granting them, seven of the Justices being of the contrary
view, as explained in the plurality opinion of Justice
Ameur
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pp. 910.
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