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An exception to this rule is the "blameless ignorance" doctrine, incorporated in Section 2 of Act No. 3326. Under this doctrine, "the statute of limitations runs only upon discovery of the fact of the invasion of a right which will support a cause of action.
Under the rulings in the Behest Loans Cases, [26] the discovery rule, which is also known as the blameless ignorance doctrine, stipulates that: x x x the statute of limitations runs only upon discovery of the fact of the invasion of a right which will support a cause of action.
Under the "blameless ignorance" doctrine, the statute of limitations runs only upon discovery of the fact of the invasion of a right which will support a cause of action. In other words, courts decline to apply the statute of limitations where the plaintiff neither knew nor had reasonable means of knowing the existence of a cause of action.
Under the "blameless ignorance" doctrine, the statute of limitations runs only upon discovery of the fact of the invasion of a right which will support a cause of action. In other words, courts decline to apply the statute of limitations where the plaintiff neither knew nor had reasonable means of knowing the existence of a cause of action.
Similarly, in the 2011 Desiertocase, We ruled that the "blameless ignorance" doctrine applies considering that the plaintiff therein had no reasonable means of knowing the existence of a cause of action.17 In this particular instance, We pinned the running of the prescriptive period to the completion by the Presidential Ad Hoc Fact-Finding ...
Under the "blameless ignorance" doctrine, the statute of limitations runs only upon discovery of the fact of the invasion of a right which will support a cause of action. In other words, courts decline to apply the statute of limitations where the plaintiff neither knew nor had reasonable means of knowing the existence of a cause of action.
Under the rulings in the Behest Loans Cases, 26 the discovery rule, which is also known as the blameless ignorance doctrine, stipulates that: x x x the statute of limitations runs only upon discovery of the fact of the invasion of a right which will support a cause of action.