BP 68 (The Corporation Code of the Philippines) Section 20

De facto corporations.

Section 20

SEC. 20. De facto corporations.—The due incorporation of any corporation claiming in good faith to be a corporation under this Code, and its right to exercise corporate powers, shall not be inquired into collaterally in any private suit to which such corporation may be a party. Such inquiry may be made by the Solicitor General in a quo warranto proceeding. (n)

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